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Quotes About Nonsense

Unreliable? Nonsense, Superior! Out of luck is all, and we both know how that goes, no? Why, there's not a man of them I wouldn't trust my mother to.' 'Are you sure?' 'She's been dead these twenty years. What harm could they do her now?
~ Joe Abercrombie
Cosca winced. "You always were far too attached to fighting. How often did I tell you? A mercenary has no business getting involved with that nonsense.
~ Joe Abercrombie
He's dumb as a bag of fresh horseshit
~ Joe R. Lansdale
Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
~ Michel Foucault
The story that is a story and sounded so healthy and stood no nonsense cannot sincerely lead to any conclusion but the grave.
~ E.M. Forster
He did not know that he talked a good deal of nonsense, and that the sheer force of his intellect was weakened by the sight of Monteriano, and by the thought of dentistry within those walls.
~ E.M. Forster
He felt that nonsense and beauty have close connections,—closer connections than Art will allow,—and that both would remain when his own heaviness and his own ugliness had perished.
~ E.M. Forster
The modern Hungarian artists, followers of that zigzag nonsense done by Matisse and Picasso and their ilk in Paris.
~ Ed Ifkovic
One bright day in the middle of night two dead boys rose to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot one another. A deaf policeman heard the noise, and saved the lives of the two dead boys. If you don't believe this lie is true, ask the blind man, he saw it too.
~ Anonymous
Werner turns the fine-tune dial fractionally, and abruptly the voice booms into his ears, Dvee-nat-set, shayst-nat-set, davt-set-adeen, nonsense, terrible nonsense, pipelined directly into his head; it's like reaching into a sack full of cotton and finding a razor blade inside, everything constant and undeviating and then that one dangerous thing, so sharp you can hardly feel it open your skin.
~ Anthony Doerr
A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
~ Anthony Hecht
We must start pushing back against this politically correct nonsense that's destroying our society and culture.
~ Maxime Bernier
But you invite ..." "I invite a bit of military nonsense." "That's what I ..." "Duncan, I am a teacher. Remember that. By repetition, I impress the lesson." "What lesson?" "The ultimately suicidal nature of military foolishness.
~ Frank Herbert
Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: 'Who will exercise the power?' Alliances, combines, complexes, they all chase mirages unless they go for the power. All else is nonsense, as most thinking beings come to realize.
~ Frank Herbert
I have seen people and their fruitless societies in such repetitive posturings that their nonsense fills me with boredom
~ Frank Herbert
Every question can be boiled down to the one: 'Why is there anything?' Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: 'Who will exercise the power?' Alliances, combines, complexes, they all chase mirages unless they go for the power. All else is nonsense, as most thinking beings come to realize.
~ Frank Herbert
How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense
~ Franz Kafka
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
~ Franz Kafka
Absurdo, completamente absurdo, una misma se confunde cuando juega con esos absurdos
~ Franz Kafka
What if I slept a little more and forget about all this nonsense.
~ Franz Kafka
One of the reasons Britain escaped the poisonous nonsense of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia is the sheer, absolute, middle-of-the-road, tedious banality of the House of Windsor. I don't want my politics to be passionate.
~ David Starkey
English wine is nonsense. They are over-priced and not very good.
~ Marco Pierre White
In 1993, 89 of the 'Fortune' top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to their employees. The philosophy behind personality tests is that they don't want you to be in the wrong kind of job. The tests have been completely exposed as nonsense.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich