Nonsense Quotes
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Pure love produces pure nonsense.
Jonathan Klinger
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Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited
George Santayana
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Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect
Frederick Saunders
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Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth
Eric Hoffer
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
E. M. Forster
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Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?
Thomas Sowell
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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.
Stephen Jay Gould
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Nonsense is an assertion of man`s spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance
Aldous Huxley
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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
Dr. Seuss
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Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we`ll do it because it`s brilliant nonsense.
Douglas Adams
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Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we`ll do it because it`s brilliant nonsense.
Douglas Adams
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There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Bertrand Russell
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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein
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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein
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Awards are essentially nonsense, but we`re all going to die when George Bush (George W. Bush) has his way - it`s good to go out with a bang.
Chris Martin
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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it`s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life`s realities.
Dr. Seuss
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(on his first trip to America and landing Remington Steele) The trip to America, it was such a great joy to go there with Cassie, to take that leap of faith and go to the New World--all that nonsense you read about in books. But again it was a liberation....
Pierce Brosnan
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I don`t believe in Bond as a hero. It`s a load of nonsense. How can you be a spy when any bar you walk into, the bartender says, `Ah, Mr Bond. Shaken, not stirred?` - His explanation for his comical approach to the Bond character.
Roger Moore
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To compare me with Goya is a nonsense. Critics speak of Goya because they don`t know anything about Quevedo, Theresa of Avila, the picaresque literature, Galdòs, [Ramón del Valle-Inclán] and others . . . Today`s culture is unfortunately inseparable from e...
Luis Bunuel
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I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense. I wanted to tell jokes, but I didn`t give a fuck about the punch line.
Harmony Korine
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[on acting] This isn`t work. It`s fun. The whole thing is fun. I hear actors say, "I have to go to work tomorrow". Nonsense. Work is eight hours in a coal mine or a government office. Getting up in the morning and putting on a funny mustache, and dressing...
David Niven
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That whole idea of American film being different from European film is nonsense. It all depends on what kind of American film you`re looking at. There`s a giant stretch of American films being made. Plus there are different types of French movies. You kno...
Josh Hartnett
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(on education vs. career) "I was told that my going to college wouldn`t be good for my career. I think that`s nonsense. It`s good to empower yourself by cutting yourself off from this business every once in a while."
Claire Danes
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[on media reports of his income from the "Star Wars" films]: The Times reports I`ve made £4.5 million in the past year. Where do they get such nonsense?
Alec Guinness
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I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.
Errol Flynn
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Hardcore wrestling like CZW is just nonsense. There`s no story there. You`ve got guys jumping off of houses onto barb wired tables and that`s it. They don`t know how to work. CZW is trash.
Paul Levesque
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Oh, that`s nonsense. Sex symbol? A cup of tea will do it. Sex is overrated. Absolutely. Forget about it. A good golf game, a nice conversation with friends, will do better. - On what it is like to be an international sex symbol.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I think the curse of Superman stuff is nonsense. I think it`s just nonsense! The reality is if you get any group of people and you statistically say get a group of 100 people, X number is gonna have some sort of calamity in their life `cause that`s what l...
Margot Kidder
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I think the curse of Superman stuff is nonsense. I think it`s just nonsense! The reality is if you get any group of people and you statistically say get a group of 100 people, X number is gonna have some sort of calamity in their life `cause that`s what l...
Margot Kidder
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We have careers advisers who say to youngsters `you need to go to university`. That is arrant nonsense.
Peter Hughes
