Quotes About Nonsense

You know what girls are -- they go to these queer parties in studios where the young men have funny ties and they come home and talk a lot of nonsense.

he said "I simply can't believe it, that's all." "Oh, nonsense," said Jimmy. "You must get into the habit of believing six impossible things before breakfast...

I told you there was nothing to it," said Arbuthnot apologetically. "But you know what it is—early hours of the morning—everything very still—the thing had a sinister look—like a detective story. All nonsense, really.

Unfortunately, Vaughan Williams talked and wrote a great deal of sheer nonsense about his supposed amateurishness.

Reverse Darwinism: survival of the most idiotic.

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!

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.

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

I drove an electric car for seven years because of its advanced technology, not because I have any concerns about energy resources. I have none at all. And when environmentalists say that global warming is dangerous, unprecedented and that we'll have a tipping point for atmospheric carbon dioxide, it's just nonsense.

Sometimes, I read that I'm this leftwing comic who just goes on about politics the whole time. Other times, I read that it's just surreal nonsense about crisps. It's both of those.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. J. K. GALBRAITH, The Affluent Society

what I want to say is that it doesn't matter what particular style of nonsense infects the child brain. Once infected, the child will grow up and infect the next generation with the same nonsense, whatever it happens to be.

He did not believe he was unique or that he had some sort of destiny. In his own heart he felt all such ideas were a complete nonsense, and that death could find him at any moment, as it was now finding so many others. Life wasn't about ideas. Life was a bit about luck. Mostly though, it was a stacked deck. Life was only about getting the next footstep right.

Theories were clean and convincing and comprehensible. Life was messy and full of nonsense.

Murmured to him nonsense, which is the language of love

Nonsense," Ophelia said stoutly. "They're happy sheep. You can tell." "How?" Sophia demanded. Ophelia regarded the ewes for a moment, then suddenly broke into a huge grin. "Maybe you can tell they 're happy sheep because they don't feel baaaaad.

Load of ole mollygrubbers

Law is just religion for atheists, dear. It's equally shot full of contradictory nonsense.

The demands of the Paris proletariat are utopian nonsense, to which an end must be put.

The man who was speaking had a degree in jargon and a doctorate in nonsense.

Gwendolen's mother had been a foolish woman, inclined to believe any passing nonsense. Of such people were patriots made, in Gwendolen's opinion. More's the pity.

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense

S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.