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Quotes About Nonsense

Do not suppose, first of all, that Mao Tse-tung could be the "saviour" of China. Nonsense. There will never be one "saviour" of China. Yet undeniably you feel a certain force of destiny in him.
~ Edgar Snow
Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
~ Henry James
Baseball's oh so simple. You tag a man, he's out. How different from being it. What spectral genius in the term, that curious part of childhood that sees through the rhymes and nonsense words, past the hidings and seekings and pretendings to something old and dank, some medieval awe, he thought, or earlier, even, that crawls beneath the midnight skin.
~ Don DeLillo
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~ Donald Trump
Logic was my favorite class in school. I like it because it's a way to see HOW what someone says is nonsense.
~ Donna Leon
We are better than our culture. Load us down with prejudice, equip us with indifference, and we will nevertheless, at the critical moment, cast the nonsense aside and find our true selves.
~ Jack McDevitt
What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since whatever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapors rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.
~ Jack Vance
You can convert this human system into absolute receptivity, where you can perceive life in ways that you have never believed possible. If you keep all your ideas, emotions and your nonsense aside, maybe you can take a step, move one inch. One little step existentially is worth more than all the scriptures that you can read on the planet. One little step is far more important than all the philosophies that you can spout.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
we both knew we were talking nonsense. The habit of involvement is not easily broken. It is even more pervasive than the habit of noninvolvement, the habit of walking away when the action starts.
~ John D. MacDonald
In Ruth's view, they looked 'like a couple' because they seemed to possess some terrible secret between them - they appeared stricken with remorse when they saw her. Only a novelist could ever imagine such nonsense. (In part, it was because of her perverse ability to imagine anything that in this instance Ruth failed to imagine the obvious)
~ John Irving
Encore des conneries dans le fond du jardin
~ John Irving
It is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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~ Unknown
Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and change it for you to a kind of wisdom. His mind had no horizon—and his sympathy had no warp.
~ John Steinbeck
There was an iron simplicty in the seer. He was like a monolith of logic standing against waves of angry nonsense.
~ John Steinbeck
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
~ Dr. Seuss
I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.
~ Dr. Seuss
It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
~ Dr Seuss
It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.
~ Margery Allingham
They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.
~ Edward Lear
Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.
~ Richard J. Foster
They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends could say.
~ Edward Lear
You're baloney without the mayo.
~ Frank Zappa