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Nonsense Quotes by Anthony Burgess
- I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.
- The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my…
- It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.
More Nonsense Quotes
- You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen
- The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. — Avicenna
- I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And… — Christian Bale
- Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. — Joseph Addison
- Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. — Max Beerbohm
- The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people… — Warren G. Bennis
- I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies… — Anthony Bourdain
- 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
- I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most… — Harold Brodkey
- The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime… — Benjamin Britten
- All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. — Samuel Butler