Quotes About Nonsense

What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.

The problem with today's world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it. The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!

Stupida, facilona primavera! Ricopre tutto senza discernimento, confonde il senso con il nonsenso, eternamente buffona, finta tonta, di una leggerezza senza limiti.

Was not Saul of Tarsus converted from unbelief by a similar fright? I tell you, the sperm whale will stand no nonsense.

I did very much hope that he wasn't frittering away his time on nonsense when he had a fantasy to dream about.

Do you know the runes on your sword are nonsense?" "Yes, but they look mysterious.

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.

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

If I've learned anything from social media, it's truly that the most irrelevant people always say the most absurd stuff.

I think our culture is sick and tired of fluffy nonsense and people want something more sincere and heartfelt.

Some people want tolerance to mean now that all ideas are equally valid. That's nonsense. There are some things that are right and there are some things that are wrong.

I don't know why so much nonsense about age is written - although I can certainly understand that no one really wants to read anything that says aging sucks.

Even if it could speak, its stories would have no unfolding of events, no beginnings or endings, just one senseless, single-syllable cacophony of middle.

That the dumbest shit ive ever seen

Claiming that solid rockets are necessary for a heavy-lift launcher is obvious nonsense.

Nonsense. And don't you go marrying just anybody, for love," she said. "Remember that love cannot last; it never, never does; but if you marry all this it's for your life. One day, don't forget, you'll be middle-aged and think what that must be like for a woman who can't have, say, a pair of diamond earrings. A woman of my age needs diamonds near her face, to give a sparkle.

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

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

I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.

Everything in life is nonsense. It's just a question of perspective.

If books spoke, there wouldn't be so many deaf people around the place. What you need to do, Fernandito, is start preventing others from writing your dialogue. Use the head God planted on your neck and write your own script. Life is full of black marketeers eager to stuff their audience's brains with nonsense because that allows them to stay on their high horses and keep the carrot dangling.

Everything in life is nonsense. It's just a question of perspective.

And thank goodness that's the way things are, because the day we lose the spark that makes us want to know things, and young people are content with the nonsense dressed in tinsel sold to them by the current popes of bullshittery--be it a miniature electrical appliance or battery-run chamber pot--and become incapable of understanding anything that lies beyond their backsides, we'll return to the age of the slug.

But to go hiking or even to go for a walk in the country—that I can't do. It makes no sense to me at all, I can't commit this sort of nonsense, I won't commit the crime of this nonsense.