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Quotes About Nonsense

The advance of our technology is coincidental with the loss of our appetite for ethical questions that ought to attend the implications of these new powers. . . In the name of diversity, any idea is regarded as worthy as any other; any nonsense is entitled to a forum, a full hearing, and equal time.
~ Thomas Lynch
Arguing at length with a conspiracy theorist is not only fruitless but sometimes dangerous, and I do not recommend it. It's a treadmill of nonsense that can exhaust even the most tenacious teacher. Such theories are the ultimate bulwark against expertise, because of course every expert who contradicts the theory is ipso facto part of the conspiracy.
~ Thomas M. Nichols
I know I am talking nonsense, but I'd rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.
~ Thomas Mann
Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
~ Thornton Wilder
Wherever you come near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense. . .
~ Thornton Wilder
Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.
~ Thornton Wilder
The brain wasn't engineered to deal with that rarefied level of dumbness.
~ Tim Dorsey
No sense makes sense.
~ Charles Manson
The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense.
~ Linton Kwesi Johnson
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
~ Horace Walpole
The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
As soon as I get the chance, I'll be back spouting nonsense on the microphone.
~ Greg Davies
The first 'Interdimensional Cable' episode is amazing because it's filled with such absolute drunken nonsense.
~ Justin Roiland
I am not in any way a conspiracy theorist and have no time for such nonsense.
~ John McAfee
That was the first time ever in history that anybody got Special Guest Star. I started that whole nonsense.
~ Jonathan Harris
Only in the Orwellian world of double-speak employed by President Barack Obama and billionaire elitist Michael Bloomberg would nonsense be hailed as 'common sense.'
~ Wayne LaPierre
The denigration of business hurts America, because the secret sauce for our economy is confidence. I don't want to hear that nonsense that all business is bad.
~ Jamie Dimon
I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.
~ C. L. R. James
All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.
~ M. F. Husain
Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.
~ Ian Frazier
A lot of what I do - I have to try and make sense of things before I can make nonsense of them.
~ Rory Bremner
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.
~ Ted Cruz
I have been invited to do something called 'Celebrity MasterChef' in England, which, of course, I can't do. It's complete nonsense. You have to be a decent cook to begin with. I'd be the joke one.
~ Lesley Nicol
If you're 90 and look good in a mini-skirt, go for it. What is 'age appropriate'? Such nonsense. My mother lived to 106, so what's middle-age? Seventy is the new 50.
~ Loretta Swit