“Miss Rice talks very tough. We have gotten used to this nonsense. Miss Rice is a bit emotional about this, and we predicted that she would have a more emotional approach to this.”
“No. 1, Halliburton. Certainly, if they’ve overcharged they should be whacked and whacked good, but the idea that the vice president somehow is involved in this, whether they got contracts because of him, that’s nonsense.”
“My dad was a slightly stricter version of Richard Dawkins. The worldview was that there are idiots out there who believe in Santa Claus and fairies and magic and elves, and we’re not joining that nonsense.”
“Imagine maintaining 70 brands in a digital world – it is a nonsense. It is better to focus on a fewer, more distinct brands.”
“Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.”
“I’m a hip-hop dancer, but when I’m in my room it turns into this lyrical nonsense, and I listen to Phil Wickham and India Arie, who has the most precious songs.”
“If you’re a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don’t make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.”
“It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.”
“Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.”
“I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.”
“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.”
“It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.”
“The biggest problem almost all comics face is not piracy or demographics or any of that nonsense: it’s obscurity.”
“It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams – not by any means of all dreams – moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.”
“There’s a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.”
“One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.”
“You want less of the annoying nonsense that interferes with your portfolios and more of the significant data that allow you to become a less distracted, more purposeful investor.”
“There are a lot of laws from Europe about employing people which are absolute nonsense.”
“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.”
“The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.”
“Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.”
“There’s this idea supposedly that we preachers are supposed to walk about with sandals and ride bicycles. That’s nonsense.”
“People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That’s utter nonsense.”
“Whenever anyone challenges anything, the powers that be try to paint them as extremists or radicals or whatever. And I think that’s actually nonsense.”
“Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.”
“There are many of us thinking of one version of parallel universe theory or another. If it’s all a lot of nonsense, then it’s a lot of wasted effort going into this far-out idea. But if this idea is correct, it is a fantastic upheaval in our understanding.”
“I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.”
“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.”
“The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
“I really don’t have time for nonsense.”
“The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take each other into consideration, it’s not uncommon for ecologists to spout absolute nonsense about economics, and vice versa.”
“This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of ‘cowards’ perpetuating ‘senseless acts of violence’ is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.”
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.”
“It’s nonsense to say money doesn’t buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.”
“We’re going to stop looking at Earth from orbit because we don’t like what we are seeing and the conclusions that leads us to? That’s nonsense.”
“The question of whether women should be made bishops once they had been ordained is absolutely pivotal. It seems to me absolute nonsense for women to be ordained to the priesthood but not to the episcopacy because the two are inextricably linked.”
“I had been brought up in the law and had this sort of instinct that international law operates and was there to protect principles and not to be the plaything of power and might – which I now know, of course, to be an absolute nonsense. International law should be spelled l-o-r-e.”
“The game has changed. What’s going on now is nonsense. You have guys complaining about not being paid.”
“To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.”
“I won’t wait for this Joshua-Wilder-Tyson Fury nonsense and become a pawn in their negotiations.”
“Bureaucratic nonsense at airports drives me crazy.”
“I’m not going to grant Bobby Green his wishes by fighting him and responding to his nonsense.”
“I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.”
“Nonsense and beauty have close connections.”
“It’s as if to be interesting, you had to be depressed and messy, but that’s complete nonsense.”
“That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.”
“Oligarch is just a nonsense word. What does it mean? I don’t like it.”
“A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.”
“It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code.”
“Either theology is pure nonsense, a subject with no content, or else theology must ultimately become a branch of physics.”
“I detest that saying ‘Everything happens for a reason’; it’s nonsense.”
“To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.”
“When in doubt, make no sense. No sense is good. And nonsense is good.”
“There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.”
“They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.”
“Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?”
“Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.”
“I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.”
“Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.”
“To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.”
“People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don’t understand about that nonsense. It’s like, all instruments are there to use all the time.”
“As soon as I get the chance, I’ll be back spouting nonsense on the microphone.”
“I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.”
“Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.”
“Claiming that solid rockets are necessary for a heavy-lift launcher is obvious nonsense.”
“By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.”
“Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.”
“I’m more scared of parking by a parking meter than vampires because one of them is real and adversely affects my life and results in a $35 fine, and one is nonsense.”
“What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?”
“Bicycles should not be insured or registered, and cycling proficiency should not be subject to a test. That’s just weak-kneed nonsense from people who believe the world can be cured with paperwork.”
“But I’ve got ideas. I keep my little notebook, I’ve always got that with me. Hopefully there’s more stuff than nonsense in there.”
“I’ve become addicted to playing poker because you’re constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.”
“Stop the nonsense about ‘student-athlete.’”
“The Left has pushed immorality to the point we have so-called ‘same-sex marriage’ and ‘transgender’ nonsense trampling the rights of Christians.”
“China invaded Tibet. It invaded it. So all this nonsense about them being the same country is absurd. It’s called Tibet. If it was part of China, it would be called China, wouldn’t it?”
“All my indispositions have their source in my mind. It is when I am restless and unhappy that I become susceptible of cold, damp, heats, and such nonsense.”
“Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense – very far in excess of one-half of one per cent – into their otherwise sober documents.”
“It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.”
“I don’t have any expensive habits. I’m not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I’d love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.”
“The record companies fell apart – quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.”
“I don’t have huge bank accounts. I’d love one. But it wouldn’t change much. I don’t have any expensive habits. I’m not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I’d love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.”
“I am not in any way a conspiracy theorist and have no time for such nonsense.”
“He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.”
“The way I see it is that all the ol’ guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn’t be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn’t be Chinese or Japanese.”
“Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.”
“There’s so much nonsense tossed around about L.A. and how horrible it is and ‘don’t go out there’ and all that stuff. So I went out to L.A. and I was pleasantly surprised.”
“The reflexive allergy to L.A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it’s kind of nonsense.”
“Although we can talk about an Indonesian democracy, or we can talk about democratic elections and democratic rituals – the trappings of democracy – we can’t genuinely talk about democracy in Indonesia because there is not rule of law, and democracy without rule of law is a nonsense.”
“There isn’t much point in the whole ‘celebrity’ nonsense unless one is prepared to go out on a limb and, one hopes, speak up for some under-represented section of the community.”
“The first ‘Interdimensional Cable’ episode is amazing because it’s filled with such absolute drunken nonsense.”
“Cable news is more titillating to talk about who’s up and who’s down and all that nonsense as opposed to what’s actually done.”
“I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There’s all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there’s a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like ‘Dallas.’ It’s pure entertainment.”
“What we can do is provide the tools, through our educational system, for people to be able to tell sense from nonsense. These tools include the scientific method, skeptical questioning, empirical evidence, verifying sources, etc.”
“I have been invited to do something called ‘Celebrity MasterChef’ in England, which, of course, I can’t do. It’s complete nonsense. You have to be a decent cook to begin with. I’d be the joke one.”
“The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense.”
“If the works of Jesus were so much more wonderful than man could perform as to deserve to be called miracles, was it not nonsense to caution his disciples so strongly against being deluded by the works of others?”
“All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.”
“There’s a certain libertarian right-wing view that there should be no FDA, that people can decide for themselves whether medicines are safe and effective. That’s nonsense. Most people don’t have the expertise or the resources to mount a proper study to find out whether a treatment is safe or effective.”
“English wine is nonsense. They are over-priced and not very good.”
“You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people’s command of English – that’s nonsense.”
“To assert, as some have, that illegal immigrants do not depress wages because they do the jobs Americans refuse is the kind of nonsense economists speak when they strain to be counterintuitive. It is similar to saying that cheap imports do not hold down prices.”
“If we allow responsible management of our forests and end the nonsense litigation from radical environmental groups, we can get our timber mills up and running, reduce the risk of wildfires, and ensure healthier forests and cleaner air.”
“Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.”
“Some have argued that the United States was designed to block majority rule; to be a ‘republic, not a democracy.’ This is ahistorical nonsense.”
“This argument that somehow I’m chasing the limelight is a bunch of nonsense, and it’s offensive – highly offensive – to me.”
“Most theatre is still really bad. It has to appeal to people who do jobs and have lives. Theatre about theatre is the most awful, terminal nonsense.”
“I don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.”
“Saying that fights in Japan were fixed and that me, along with other guys like Silva, Minotauro, etc., did not win those fights legitimately is an ultimate and absurd nonsense.”
“The popular image that Hollywood is ruined by difficult prima donna actors is nonsense. They’re certainly very nice to directors. I can’t say the same about producers, who I found difficult, paranoid, and certifiably insane, mostly.”
“In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the Pakistani Taliban, etc. That is just nonsense.”
“Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.”
“On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.”
“Trump has claimed he knows more about ISIS than America’s leading generals. Clearly, this is also total nonsense; he doesn’t seem to have done the slightest thing to educate himself about ISIS.”
“Hersh’s account of the bin Laden raid is a farrago of nonsense that is contravened by a multitude of eyewitness accounts, inconvenient facts, and simple common sense.”
“Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.”
“One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.”
“If you think about it, 534 members of the U.S. Congress cannot all be religious. That’s just statistical nonsense. Many of them are quite well-educated.”
“I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics.”
“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.”
“I don’t worry about who they’re putting in front of me. Why would I? That’s just nonsense for me to waste my energy.”
“I’m an agnostic in the truest sense of the word. I think about these things – I grew up Roman Catholic, I’ve been interested in Hinduism, in Eastern religions, but I’m not dedicated to anything – I go through periods where I think maybe it’s all nonsense; maybe it’s ‘The Matrix…’ I’m open to various ideas.”
“Criticism is nonsense. TV shows and newspapers just want to fill the space.”
“A lot of what I do – I have to try and make sense of things before I can make nonsense of them.”
“The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we’re a continent and the world falls away after us. And it’s just nonsense.”
“All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.”
“To assume that any couple goes without arguing is just nonsense.”
“The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.”
“People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive.”
“We don’t see a lot of LGBTQ representation in period dramas because there was so much shame around it at the time. The stories that we tell about that time don’t tend to focus explicitly on those sorts of characters, which is nonsense because they existed.”
“Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.”
“Americans should be ashamed of how aflutter they get about Downton Abbey – it’s unpatriotic. I seem to remember we fought a revolution so as not to put up with this nonsense, where notions of station are so unforgiving that upper and lower echelons are practically different species.”
“Sometimes, I read that I’m this leftwing comic who just goes on about politics the whole time. Other times, I read that it’s just surreal nonsense about crisps. It’s both of those.”
“There’s no such thing as The Method. The term ‘method-acting’ is so much nonsense. There are many methods, many techniques.”
“This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.”
“Oh yes, I’ve been approached to do all sorts of nonsense. How about a remake of ‘West Side Story?’”
“A lot of things the press say are nonsense.”
“People who go to Oxford and Cambridge are often unproductive. What am I saying? This is nonsense. No, sometimes they get so competitive that, unless they’re going to be Pulitzer prize-winning, they can’t get off their backside.”
“This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.”
“I just don’t stand for any nonsense.”
“The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.”
“I’m a quick wit, straight to the point, no nonsense.”
“Don’t talk to me about a man’s being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?”
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