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Quotes About Nonsense

This motion is something out of Alice in Wonderland !
~ Dennis L. Breo
So he has no head' 'Thats usually what headless means' 'No head at all?' 'Your really not getting the whole headless thing are you?' 'Its just kind of silly even for us...
~ Derek Landy
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.
~ Pope Francis
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
~ Moliere
Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
~ Bill Drayton
The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
~ Jim Harrison
Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns, well, you know what they say in politics, a hit dog hollers.
~ Jennifer M. Granholm
pull his hair as you go by: I heard him snap his fingers."  Frances pulled his hair heartily, and then went and seated herself on her husband's knee, and there they were, like two babies, kissing and talking nonsense by the hour—foolish palaver that we should be ashamed of.  We made ourselves as snug as our means allowed
~ Emily Bronte
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~ Enid Blyton
I feel like Alice falling into Wonderland. A line came to him: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.
~ Eoin Colfer
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.  
~ Ambrose Bierce
Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
~ Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Nonsense!" his father explained in bad grace. "It's a pointless luxury. To own a yacht is like standing in the rain and ripping apart thousand dollar bills, someone once said.
~ Andreas Eschbach
Oh yes, I've been approached to do all sorts of nonsense. How about a remake of 'West Side Story?'
~ Terry Zwigoff
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
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.
~ Julian Fellowes
When you come from within the industry, you are better prepared for the industry. For example, you see your family deal with the nonsense that is written in the papers, or the highs and lows of a hit and a flop.
~ Arjun Kapoor
Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.
~ Harold Ford, Jr.
Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.
~ Hugh Grant
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.
~ Dennis Prager
People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.
~ Tracy Kidder
I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts.
~ Rick Riordan
A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.
~ Roald
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not a sin — just stupid.)
~ Robert A. Heinlein