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People often say that writing is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. This is nonsense, of course. It's pretty much one hundred percent caffeine. — Caprice Crane
I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system. — Edie Sedgwick
OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an… — Ambrose Bierce
Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it. — Laurence Gonzales
Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty. — Anthony Eden
There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or… — Bertrand Russell
There is no systematic corruption in FIFA. That is nonsense. We are financially clean and clear. — Sepp Blatter
Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you can't just say there is… — T.H. White
It’s dead obvious that creationism isn’t science, or even bad science. It’s nonsense. But I’ve long stated it’s also bad religion, because it doesn’t just… — Phil Plait
For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly… — Gene Roddenberry
SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense — Eric Butterworth
[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason. — Joost Meerloo
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of… — Robertson Davies
Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the wonder is that there are so few skeptics. — Norman Finkelstein
Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process. — Epictetus
Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a one… — Giuseppe Verdi
To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite while foolish people speak nonsense — Morton Blackwell
To his enemies the householder must be a hero. Them he must resist. That is the duty of the householder. He must not sit down… — Swami Vivekananda
In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense. — Jorge Luis Borges
What is the power of life? With all the ungraceful dirt, nonsense, you remain graceful. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this… — W. Somerset Maugham
As a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your political party… — Keith Olbermann
Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense. — Georg Solti

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