Nonsense Quotations | Page 2

PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.

Our current laws tell peaceful, law-abiding, tax-paying, native-born citizens, you and your partner must either split up or leave the country, ... This is nonsense and it's completely mean spirited.

Somebody needs to tell the lawmakers who are pushing this nonsense that a constituent is not a lobbyist.

Coach Williams gets in there with them and encourages them. There's no nonsense about his attitude and approach.

That's nonsense -- we are not favoring anybody. We are aiming for the most reasonable and sensible system.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.'This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.

This is errant nonsense from people who have not read or looked at the programs that the IMF supports.

The (United States) needs to stop issuing such nonsense as soon as possible. They have so little credibility that they can breed nothing but further distrust.

A lot of nonsense is said. And after awhile you just stop listening.

There's a lot of nonsense going on here. This has absolutely no relevance to this case. It's irritating. Come on, it would be irritating to you, wouldn't it? If you had pictures of your family, a picture of the guy you wrote a book about that his secretary gave you, that had been a present from his own parliamentary caucus?

There's a lot of things that I can fix, and generally speaking, those things are about my team, ... I can fix anything that's wrong with my team. Some of the other nonsense that goes on, I can't fix. And when it comes time when that other nonsense comes to the point where it affects the way I can fix and help my team, then it's time for me to leave. When that time comes, I'll let you know.

A careless song, with a little nonsense in it, now and then, does not misbecome a monarch

It is overreaching, bureaucratic nonsense like this that makes people distrust and resent government,

It's a nonsense to have doping in football, ... A player with more muscles is not a better football player because what is needed today is skill and not muscle.

It made hard-core people harder core, ... Ultimately it had a good effect because it made such nonsense of so many views about guns.

It's pure nonsense that a state legislator would think there's nothing he can do to benefit Native Americans. The high infant mortality rate on reservations is due to devastating poverty. Yet the state has not passed any laws in the last several years that would boost any of the health or education programs within the reservation community. As for tribal sovereignty, the only time the state wants to recognize it is when it benefits the state, as in this instance when it allows Senator Napoli to opt out of an intelligent response.

It's an alternative fuel that is friendly for the environment. But it's complete nonsense to suggest dead cats. I've never used cats and would never think of that. At most the odd toad may have jumped in.

It was a good day a mix of industry stuff and super-stupid useless celebrity nonsense. I mean they're all nonsense in one way or the other.

It's where common sense and nonsense meet head-up, ... Barbershops are the black man's country club. You can say what you want, no matter how crazy it is.

The warning is clearly nonsense and no such virus exists. However, hoaxes and chain letters like this are not harmless - they waste time and bandwidth, and can be a genuine headache for support departments. Users need to think ask themselves whether everything they are told can be believed.

They have this absurd notion that something that occurs in the past and that is not subject to direct observation is not provable. That's nonsense .... There is a mystery as to how evolution occurs, but there is not a whole lot of doubt as to whether it occurs.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?

Chris West, our strength coach, said it was our best workout we've had in three months. It was no nonsense The time was short, but the attention-getting was there.

Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.

What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and a half of nonsense.

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.

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.

Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.

The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense.

To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably bound up with patently paranoid ravings which served only to devalue the small amounts of sense and pertinence with which they were associated.

Nonsense, now and then, is pleasant.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

I definitely think they want you to achieve and they're not going to put up ? like my parents would not put up with nonsense like with being lazy, with not trying hard enough, with second best. That's not OK.

How much nonsense and lies you gonna get away with this guy before he really does do something with your people? ... You've gotta be taken to task. I mean, you're there to inform the public, not to lie to the public, you know what I mean?

I commend you for standing up to the nonsense ... that you have had to put up with today.

It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.

Faced with the nonsense question 'What is the meaning of a word?' and perhaps dimly recognizing it to be nonsense, we are nevertheless not inclined to give it up.

If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.

I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.

I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.

There are ways of doing stunts without me. I get no pleasure putting my life in jeopardy just to get the shot. Life is too short for that nonsense.

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

People will think you're courting me.' 'Nonsense, everyone knows I don't court respectable women.

No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.

But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.

It might not be true, but that doesn't mean it's nonsense.

It is a ruined-world, a nonsense-place.

No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.

If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.

The nonsense that charms is close to sense.

Nonsense is socially OK, but not stupidity.

The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It's all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.

All voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.

Dive bars are much more my thing. They're no-nonsense.

Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the wonder is that there are so few skeptics.

I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme.

Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.

Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman

There's huge amounts of nonsense that goes with everything surrounding music and art. All the things you have to do promote yourself - there's huge amounts of nonsense.

The market for nonsense is infinite.

My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.

Find the enemy and shoot him down. Anything else is nonsense.

I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel.

A huge part of keeping women in their place has to do with creating a really limited definition of what a 'real' woman is like. And a ton of that what-makes-a-woman nonsense is attached to motherhood. Apparently, by virtue of having ovaries and a uterus, women are automatic mommies or mommies-to-be.

The gloves are off. We're taking no more nonsense from anybody.

The Cuban people are trapped between a cruel dictator in Cuba and nonsense policies ... on this side of the Straits of Florida.

Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?

The medical community has lost some of our credibility in the past when we've made claims that we really didn't have the data to make and used them as quasi-scare tactics. I can remember during my medical education, people saying, 'Well, they don't really help you bulk up,' and that was total nonsense and every athlete knew that.

Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution.

Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.

What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you.

To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.

Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.

I love exaggerated, and I love eccentric, but you must be comfortable. Otherwise it is nonsense. There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.

The reflexive allergy to L.A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense.

Your explanation depresses me," I said. "Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple.

It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.

Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.

Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.

My belief is that everything that's written about you is actually secondary showbiz nonsense, and you shouldn't take any notice of it.

Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.

I have come to see the nonsense of trying to describe fine scenery.

One man’s nonsense is another man’s sense.

It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.

To say whatever nonsense comes into your head without any repercussions has got to be a bigger high than heckling a movie screen in a darkened theater.

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.

You've always been free. You've always been bright and shining. Everything else is just nonsense.

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.