Best Nonsense Quotations
777 Nonsense quotes by 572 unique authors
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It is time for the truth to be brought out... Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through…
— Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter
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Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick; it…
— Doris Lessing
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But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the sky and see…
— Thomas Merton
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The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great…
— James Russell Lowell
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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
— Northrop Frye
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Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to write total nonsense…
— Ann Brashares
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What happens a lot with songwriting is that a melody or rhythm or something stays with you like catching a cold. And during that time…
— Thom Yorke
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Over the past eighteen years I have acted as a scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force on the subject of unidentified flying objects -…
— J. Allen Hynek
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She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in chess, that I…
— Bobby Fischer
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We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will talk sense to the American people. But we can hope that…
— John F. Kennedy
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Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit…
— Jason Statham
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I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's…
— Andy Rooney
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?
— Gene Wilder
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Given the power and influence that science increasingly has in our daily lives, it is important that we as citizens of an open and democratic…
— Massimo Pigliucci
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Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers…
— Nick Harkaway
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In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party .…
— Jane Austen
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The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense…
— Jacques Barzun
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We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done…
— Karl Marx
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The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It's all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.
— Michele Bachmann
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Liberals have created, and the minority leadership has exploited, a community of dependent people, unaware of the true route to prosperity and happiness: self-reliance and…
— Rush Limbaugh
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Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.
— Alfred Bester
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Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and the greatest science…
— Harlan Ellison
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As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and…
— Jane Jacobs
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