Quotes and Sayings About Nonsense
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Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.
-- Alfred BesterSource : Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”
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Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.
-- Alfred BesterSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.
-- Amanda Donohoe -
Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
-- Andrew Young -
It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.
-- Angela Merkel -
The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop. I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by pointing out that he is obviously an atheist.
-- Ann Coulter -
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I cut through the nonsense with the blinding light of truth.
-- Ann Coulter -
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
I don't like the Samba; it's nonsense. With a lot of these Latin dances I can't really understand what they're all about. I like the Rumba and the Paso Doble but the others I could take or leave.
-- Anton du BekeSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.
-- Aristotle -
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I am convinced that any photographic attempt to show the complete man is nonsense. We can only show, as best we can, what the outer man reveals. The inner man is seldom revealed to anyone, sometimes not even the man himself.
-- Arnold Newman -
Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.
-- Arthur Frederick Saunders -
In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.
-- Ben Horowitz -
More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
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Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
-- Bill Drayton -
To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.
-- Bill HaywoodSource : Big Bill Haywood (1929). “Bill Haywood's book”
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To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality
-- Bill Mollison -
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When theres ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was well, thats nonsense! so what that means is that a true creative researcher has to have confidence in nonsense.
-- Burt RutanSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.
-- C. L. R. James -
The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.
-- C. S. Lewis -
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I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.
-- Catharine MacKinnon -
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
-- Catharine MacKinnonSource : Catharine A. MacKinnon (1996). “Only Words”, p.109, Harvard University Press
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I love people who have such passion for complete nonsense.
-- Chelsea Handler -
Rugby is a nonsense, but a very serious nonsense.
-- Cliff Morgan