Quotes About Nonsense

We are middle-aged. This is what happens. All the same nonsense that comes with puberty occurs again during perimenopause—the hormone surges, the moodiness, and the hair appearing where there wasn't hair before. Except instead of filling in under the arms and on nether regions, these coarse follicles of hate are showing up on our freaking faces.

Nazis were executing a coordinated strike on Social Democrat trade unions throughout the country) "One day the Nazis celebrate the worker," said Arvid, "and the next they destroy him." "Surely the German people see the same pattern we do," said Mildred. "They can't be distracted by rallies and entertainments forever. Eventually it's going to come down to right and wrong, common sense versus nonsense.

If you ask me, I call the whole thing bally foolishness.

Alice was not aimed at changing anyone's mind. There is no moralizing or didactic aspect to Alice and Through the Looking Glass. Both are nonsense satires which lampoon adults but make no attempt to instruct children and are nearly absent of sentimentality. This was revolutionary in children's fiction and allowed for the maturation of the genre.

The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.

I don't care about the critics. I took a lot of nonsense. I got stuck with silly labels like 'White Hope.' What about other guys like Tex Cobb - they never had those labels?

Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.

Proper stupidity is fascinating.

It is, after all, impossible in the modern world to shield everyone from nonsense and stupidity.

We just don't subscribe to the conventional wisdom that you can't have an action series led by a female character. It's kinda nonsense to us.

Science is not going to change its commitment to the truth. We can only hope religion changes its commitment to nonsense.

It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense

Aquilo que não faz sentido faz o maior sentido de todos.

É incrível que, quando mais alguém começa a botar pra fora as besteiras em que você próprio acredita, você consegue perceber imediatamente como elas não fazem o menor sentido.

What a strange, wondrous thing, music. At last the chattering mind is silenced. No past to regret, to future to worry about, no more frantic knitting of words and thoughts. Only a beautiful, soaring nonsense.

Liberal? Hosh-kosh nonsense!' No one was more liberal than anyone else anywhere anyway. It was only that here, in Willesden, there was just not enough of any one thing to gang up against any other thing and send it running to the cellars while windows were smashed.

Alcohol makes you stupid.

Une des plus grandes niaiseries du commerce parisien est de vouloir trouver le succès dans les analogues, quand il est dans les contraires A

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant.

As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.

They reflect common sense or—as my mentor Nelson Goodman used to quip—common nonsense.

Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.

My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point.