Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth!… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I don't have huge bank accounts. I'd love one. But it wouldn't change much. I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I never read Freud. I've never been attracted to anything he has said, and I think he's started a lot of nonsense… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There was a time, before I was in graduate school, when political philosophy pretty much ceased to exist. The positivists thought there… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Let me live vividly until I drop. Let me drop dead aged 100 against my laptop, still typing this sort of infuriating… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
Saying that fights in Japan were fixed and that me, along with other guys like Silva, Minotauro, etc., did not win those… — Mirko Cro Cop Copy Share Image
Do not be selfish and feel new people will take more of the teacher's attention and you won't get it. That's nonsense.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This was nonsense, he thought. The need of her was a physical thing, like the thirsty of a sailor becalmed for weeks… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Bes had indeed put on his ugly outfit. He climbed onto the roof of the limbo and stood there, legs planted, arms… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Yeah, we don't consider many stupid things. I mean, we get rid of 'em fast...Just getting rid of the nonsense -- just… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I am an outsider looking in, absolutely. You're not going to see me at the Academy Awards 'Vanity Fair' party any time… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
Johnny Ramone's autobiography is a no holds barred, straight-forward book written in a no-nonsense style that is Johnny personified. His story is… — Tommy Ramone Copy Share Image
It is better to use this available energy for your observation, inner observation. Just watch everything - and it is good because… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton persuaded some people that he was really a civilized character and his Administration had the best interests of humanity at… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
In recent years there's been a lot of philosophical theorising about how important magic is, and how it takes us back to… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
For some reason people say such negative things about having a baby - you won't sleep, the stress, the crying. Nonsense. It's… — James Mullinger Copy Share Image
A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It’s not… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
And He [God] and you are two things of such a kind that if you really get into any kind of touch… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about; and those who preach faith and enable and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“I keep hearing about a spiritual awakening, but I feel what we need instead, is a human one. It would be wonderful… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to… — Ron Bloom Copy Share Image
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People are asking that question again if Max is being too tough on his equipment, but that's complete nonsense. He can't overdrive,… — Jos Verstappen Copy Share Image
Women all think that if a guy likes you he will come and talk to you. That's nonsense - 'actually the opposite… — Matthew Hussey Copy Share Image
What (Stephen) Hawking says in his book The Grand Design is the universe exists because it needed to exist, and because it… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
I don't like the Samba; it's nonsense. With a lot of these Latin dances I can't really understand what they're all about.… — Anton du Beke Copy Share Image
While all men are born as equals, to say that Brahmins alone are the highest and all others are low as Pariah… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
I don't mind being around a whole bunch of people, but when there's a whole bunch of nonsense going on around me,… — Minkah Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“You can't fight hatred with hatred and expect anyone to listen to you. You can only try to lessen it with humor,… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
A fool can never be made to question his own wisdom. And George Groves is very foolish. He believes his own nonsense.… — Carl Froch Copy Share Image
Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Bicycles should not be insured or registered, and cycling proficiency should not be subject to a test. That's just weak-kneed nonsense from… — James May Copy Share Image
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image