Nonsense Quotes · Page 9

But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.

— Patrick Rothfuss

To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.

— Gerrit Smith

It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.

— Angela Merkel

“Wherever you come near the human race there’s layers and layers of nonsense.”

— Thornton Wilder

The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense.

— Crane Brinton

“And then she said to herself, brandishing her sword at life, nonsense.”

— Virginia Woolf

I cut through the nonsense with the blinding light of truth.

— Ann Coulter

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

— Gelett Burgess

I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics.

— Rick Wright

Now, I have a confession to make. I hate warm-ups with a passion. Worst part of the whole day. Nonsense, they are.

— Andrew Flintoff

It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's dressed up in the…

— Giles Fraser

Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and…

— Marilynne Robinson

We see a missile here, a bomb there - looks good on CNN. This is nonsense. This is not a strategy of…

— Ted Cruz

I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.

— Gunter Grass

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that…

— Richard Pryor

A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.

— Ambrose Bierce

What we can do is provide the tools, through our educational system, for people to be able to tell sense from nonsense.…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Second freshness - that's what is nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first - and it is also the last.…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

If the Army wants witches and satanists in its ranks, then it can do it without Christians in those ranks. It's time…

— Paul Weyrich

Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate…

— Dmitri Mendeleev

“I had a dream about you last night... we tried to joke but neither could make any sense. We realized that puns…

— Marshall Ramsay

“Despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just…

— Eleanor Brown

There is nothing better than standing at a bar, talking nonsense, while sipping a pint of real ale. Give me a pub…

— Tony Hadley

I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them…

— Susanna Clarke

Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if you're aboard…

— Cherie Priest

What do you look at while you’re making up your mind? Ours is not a reflective culture, we do no raise our…

— Thomas Harris

One good thing that comes from living the nomadic life demanded by an expedition is that one sheds the fake skin donned…

— Karen Hawkins

There will never again be a day exactly like today. There will never again be a moment exactly like this moment. After…

— Ryan Miller

“Old boy," said Grimes, "you're in love." "Nonsense!" "Smitten?" said Grimes. "No, no." "The tender passion?" "No." "Cupid's jolly little darts?" "No."…

— Evelyn Waugh

Only with great care. For thousands, carols will be their only link with a church. At the same time, sentimentality is perhaps…

— Jeremy Begbie

Too often the media assumes that "poverty" is an African American or a Latino issue. Of course, that's nonsense. While a higher…

— Sasha Abramsky

Valkyrie dialed Skulduggery's number and he picked up. 'Hey,' she said, 'It's me.' Skulduggery paused. 'No it's not. If it were me,…

— Derek Landy

“All is not at an end on earth since we can still talk nonsense.”

— Victor Hugo

We don't have any sense for prediction because to know the future is nonsense.

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.

— Gary Zukav

Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and a half of nonsense.

— Jason Statham

The paleo diet is utter nonsense - it is such pseudoscience.

— Alice Roberts

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

— Vladimir Nabokov

It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Stop the nonsense about 'student-athlete.'

— Jeff Van Gundy