Nonsense Quotes

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

To assume that any couple goes without arguing is just nonsense.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?

To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.

There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

That was the first time ever in history that anybody got Special Guest Star. I started that whole nonsense.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.

I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.

It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.

Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.