Nonsense Quotations

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.

Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.

Gibberish rap is - I freestyle all the time, just hangin' out with friends. And sometimes when I'm freestyling, I'll lose my flow, you know, but I'll still wanna - I don't wanna just stop rapping because I lose my flow. So I'll just put in nonsense words till I can bring in regular words again.

New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.

I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry. What irritates me more is when people aren't respectful. There's a lot of nonsense behavior, especially in a place like Hollywood. The money, the power, they create little monsters.

The floor of Christendom and elsewhere is littered with wrecks made by old prophets. God won't stand nonsense from any man. Every man has to choose between Christ and Barabbas, and every Christian between God and some old prophet.

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?

I detest that saying Everything happens for a reason; its nonsense.

I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.

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.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

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.

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.

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

I must say the idea of a United Africa was 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.

It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.

I hate when people say, 'Oh, they laughed all the way to the bank.' That's nonsense because the most cynical, unhappy people are Hollywood screenwriters. They earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for work that's never made.

One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.

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.

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office.

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?

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.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action

Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.

I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.

Everything in life in nonsense. it's just a question of persepctive

You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer.

Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.

Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.

I love people who have such passion for complete nonsense.

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.

We are going to ignore it because it has no value. It is pure nonsense and the former president will go on with ordinary life.

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know." "Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have to do a thing, and then I'll do anything you want." "Anything?" "Anything that doesn't require doing anything." "That's nothing, then." "Is it?" "Yes." "Well, that's something.

Confidence in nonsense is required.

A true creator researches how to have confidence in nonsense.

Bureaucratic nonsense at airports drives me crazy.

September is pantyhose month. No nonsense.

Senator McCain is the very role model of an independent voice who is willing to speak out against the partisan nonsense that happens in the nation's capital.

She is a no-nonsense judge, and she doesn't abide by nonsense from the defense or the prosecutor. Being a former assistant U.S. attorney, she holds the government attorneys to a very high standard, which is as it should be. She is evidently very disturbed by the developments in this case, which is as it should be as well.

Nonsense is a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth.

Now that this nonsense is over I hope we will be given a chance to take care of the nation's football without any further hindrance.

If this affair puts an end to the nonsense of the parliament meeting, at great expense, in two different countries, then so much the better.

I don't care how much lip service they give you about it, there is this culture in Atlantic Beach that believes this nonsense is OK.

I believe that the future of McDonald's is going to be their international growth. Let's not forget what President Bush is trying to do in Russia. Russia eventually is going to have to be our friend versus all this nonsense terrorism that's going on in the world, ... So, does the overseas market concern me? It doesn't because they are looking to marginalize that growth of 1-to-2 percent and diversify at the same time. I think the bad things are behind it and I like the stock.

But we can most certainly stop the sort of nonsense Beckham had to put up with before the game from happening again.

From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

If anyone has ownership rights, it's the citizens of Montana, ... It's nonsense to try to secure the rights to it in the first place.

If we look at the nation that President Bush leads, it also behaves in many ways like an addict. The United States is a gigantic John Candy of a country, straining its oversized elasticated pants from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The country is addicted to more or less everything, constantly craving greater and greater quantities of petrol, electricity, pointless sports, empty patriotism, fatty hormone-crammed meat, gigantic pedestrian-crushing four-wheel drive trucks, ever more baseball caps with nonsense written on them and unquestioning obedience from every nation on the planet.

He has effected a sea-change in American constitutional jurisprudence. His sophisticated revival of federalism, in particular, renews that which makes democracy work -- not in theory, but on the ground. It gives divergent voices a chance to be heard and prevail, not in one venue, but in 50. Had the Court heeded his wisdom more thoroughly, there would be less nonsense about red and blue division and far less cultural warfare.

He was saying, mumbling, something like, 'She's the devil,' talking about the mom, saying, 'She's the devil,' and some other nonsense I couldn't really make out.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put on the troubled seas of thought.

It is a joke, an absolute nonsense to even suggest such things.

It is nonsense to say that these areas do not contribute to the economy.

It is nonsense to even think that what the band wear for their shows at this point in their career is even a talking point.

It is nonsense on stilts and seemingly the work of a desperate journalist...

It is nonsense for the Attorney General to say she had no more options,

I will admit to a pleasure and sense of hope in what I see as the basic teachings of Christ, stripped of the nonsense that has sometimes been accumulated about them and the embarrassing misunderstanding.

My nightmare fear is some congressman is going to seize on this and they're going to pass some laws, ... I can just see people overreacting and doing things that would invade people's privacy or tie up the Internet with so much security nonsense that innovation slows down.

I think one can try to reduce the amount of confusion, and also to reduce the amount of nonsense that's talked about quantum mechanics.

We just can't put up with it anymore. The partisan nonsense that is ruining our nation has to stop.

We're eliminating the nonsense. I'm fed up. I'm sick of losing at home and playing terrible basketball. Nonsense is always a distraction.

We were about to go oh-for-April. I remember the night before, Frank Robinson talking to Mark Williamson and I and saying Mark was going to start the game and pitch six and I was going to pitch after him for three and get this nonsense over with. And that's the way it went.

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.

I cut through the nonsense with the blinding light of truth.

Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick; it was a mechanism to earn a few hundred men and women incredible sums of money.

Nonsense, I have not yet begun to defile myself.

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.

It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

The whole season thing is nonsense. It's either beautiful or it isn't. That's something I really learned when I started collecting dresses.

Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.

The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

We will do everything we can to stop this nonsense of dual citizenship.

But much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney. Mr. Wallaces warp of sense and his woof of nonsense is very tricky cloth out of which to cut the pattern of a post-war world.

Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans.

This Nonsense about my mother praying for me is really making me angry. My mother never approved of my relationship with Ellen. Her hatred for our relationship is one of the many things that ultimately led to my breaking off all communication with her. (My mother, that is, not Ellen.)

I use my intuition, my imagination, my voice and my body. That is really what actors do. There is a lot of nonsense talked about acting, but really all we do is use our voice, our body, our imaginations to create portraits about people so that you and the audience can be pulled into beautiful stories.

The symptoms teachers are experiencing are real; these teachers are ill. The BUT dismisses that nonsense because I don't understand how cancer, asthma, rhinitis or conjunctivitis falls into that category. We understand that it is a phenomenon, but it cannot be attributed to what is happening at Louis Lynch School.