Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
If little fish get eaten by bigger fish, and bigger fish get eaten by bigger fish... what happens when there are no… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Live in constant gratitude. No matter what the condition today, no matter how dark, how dreary, how painful and difficult…to day is… — James Arthur Ray Copy Share Image
There is something very quiet and reserved and pessimistic about Obama's temperament that is deeply un-American. There are those people who claim,… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I mistrust these people in music industry who can be everybody. This is where technology dictates to them. I mistrust that, that… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people from religion; that amendment was written to protect religion… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
We also heard the usual old nonsense that banning hunting would affect employment if we abolished crime we would put all the… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
I've realized that a lot of people come to me because of what's called identity. In the sense of "he's like me"… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
“We'll have to see," Belbo said. He rummaged in his drawer and took out some sheets of paper. "Potio-section..." He looked at… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Spread the glad tidings that it will not disappoint Miss Heyer's many admirers. Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
I, too, have felt that the war goes on and on. When my son, Ian, died at El Alamein-- side by side… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
My parents said I'd always been attracted to music from an early age. The classic story is I started singing before I… — Vienna Teng Copy Share Image
I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry. What… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Steve Forman is a brutally funny writer. His no-nonsense, unadorned style begs comparison to Dashiell Hammett, but Hammett's humor at its darkest… — Loren D. Estleman Copy Share Image
The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm open to anyone who can or has demonstrated that they can effectively market and distribute with the best. It wouldn't hurt… — Vantile Whitfield Copy Share Image
People whose views are swung when you get into these ridiculous debates - I think they're all nonsense. You've got to have… — Nigel Pearson Copy Share Image
It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
I know for a fact that this idea of the Jews causing the war and the Jews being so all important is… — Joachim von Ribbentrop Copy Share Image
The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I hear you younger people saying how many friends they have on the Internet. That's nonsense. That's not friends, that's acquaintances. The… — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
As soon as one of my records goes on, it makes a vast portion of the public nervous. They get spooked by… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
The Samba requires that the lower part of the body does all of the work but the upper body has absolutely no… — Chris McCausland Copy Share Image
What I like or dislike in music is my internal affair. I never want an audience out there to be influenced because… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Even now, when you get love, you see Radha. Become Radha and be saved. There is no other way, Christians do not… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Dean did not want to see anyone right now, but if he had to make a list of people he did want… — T.F. Lince Copy Share Image
Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Yours is much worse than Eastern! You’ve slapped together travel notes, moralistic ramblings, feelings, notes, jottings, untheoretical discussions, unfable-like fables, copied out… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said,… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
