The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
Work-do plays, learn your craft, and go to school. Keep working. Nobody is going to give you jobs for going to parties… — James Gandolfini Copy Share Image
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense… But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I won't hold any illusions of changing the world or any such nonsense. But maybe, just maybe, I'm helping someone else change… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“To talk one’s own nonsense is almost better than spouting someone else’s truth.In the first case, you’re a human being; but in… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
There's all of this stuff where we have so much debate over nonsense; it could be cured if we had a better… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
All of these declarations of what writing ought to be, which I had myself-though, thank God I had never committed them to… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
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
Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's… — Larry Ellison 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I'll always be happy if they'd leave me alone in that delightful and unknown furthest corner, apart from struggles, putrefactions and nonsense;… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Bump! Bump! Bump! Did you ever ride a wump? We have a Wump with just one hump. But, we know a man… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,--… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
“I will meet you in the next three days. In the name of God Almighty, I proclaim the end of the world… — Mehmet Ali Ağca Copy Share Image
I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“No, no, you have none of you any idea. This is all nonsense, fantasy, it is not like this. Nothing so blood-curdling… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
I don't put much stock in powers that people have to hurt others, in sorcery and all this nonsense. There are murders… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image