Nonsense Quotes - Page 26

• The whole season thing is nonsense. It's either beautiful or it isn't. That's something I really learned when I started collecting dresses.

  Alber Elbaz

  Beautiful, Dresses, Collecting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived.

  Don DeLillo

  Novelists, World, Way

  "I don't know America anymore". Interview with Christoph Amend, Georg Diez, perival.com. October 11, 2007.

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• Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Night, Talking, Your Side

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It is precisely because it is fashionable for Americans to know no science, even though they may be well educated otherwise, that they so easily fall prey to nonsense.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fall, May, Prey

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• Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.

  Richard J. Foster

  Commitment, Discipline, Gains

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• There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence.

  Alan Watts

  Laughter, Believe, Miracle

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• It might not be true, but that doesn't mean it's nonsense.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Mean, Might, Being True

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear”, p.322, Penguin

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• There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense should have one good idea.

  Otto E. Neugebauer

  Writing, Should Have, Class

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• Fear of the devil is nonsense. Fear of demons is foolish. The Spirit of God anointing the Christian heart makes the soul impregnable to the powers of darkness.

  John G. Lake

  Christian, Heart, Soul

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• There's huge amounts of nonsense that goes with everything surrounding music and art. All the things you have to do promote yourself - there's huge amounts of nonsense.

  Laura Marling

  Art, Huge, Amount

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is an old motto that runs, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." This is nonsense. It ought to read, "If at first you don't succeed, quit, quit at once."

  Stephen Leacock

  Running, Trying, Firsts

  Stephen Leacock (2015). “Frenzied Fiction”, p.145, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity, and makes greater Impression than Reason; though indeed no particular species of Nonsense is so durable. But the several Forms of Nonsense never cease succeeding one another; and Men are always under the Dominion of some one or other, though nothing was ever equal in Absurdity and Wickedness to our present Patriotism.

  David Hume

  Book, Men, Wickedness

  David Hume, J. Y. T. Greig (2011). “The Letters of David Hume:”, p.239, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If I can't understand something, then it's probably nonsense.

  Unknown

  Ifs, I Can

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• Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles nonsense and profanity. 'By their fruits ye shall know them.'

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Cheer, Clothes, Sick

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• I don't believe all this nonsense about market timing. Just buy good value and when the market is ready that value will be recognized.

  Henry Earl Singleton

  Believe, Timing, Ready

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• Republicans favor tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, but these had no stimulative effect during the George W. Bush administration, and there is no reason to believe that more of them will have any today. As for the idea that cutting regulations will lead to significant job growth, it's just nonsense. It's just made up.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Jobs, Believe, Cutting

  "Studies challenge wisdom of GOP candidates' plans". www.washingtonpost.com. October 30, 2011.

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• Rationality is not just something you do so that you can make more money, it is a binding principle. Rationality is a really good idea. You must avoid the nonsense that is conventional in one's own time. It requires developing systems of thought that improve your batting average over time.

  Charlie Munger

  Average, Ideas, Principles

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• Change is always subjective. To talk of evil and misery is nonsense, because they do not exist outside. If I am immune from all anger, I never feel angry. If am immune from all hatred, I never feel hatred.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Evil, Hatred, Misery

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• Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or bad, and never think of them again. What is done is done. Throw off superstition. Have no weakness even in the face of death. Be free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, Wind, Weakness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3203, Manonmani Publishers

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• The notion of the competitiveness of countries, on the model of the competitiveness of companies, is nonsense.

  Martin Wolf

  Country, Notion, Company

  Martin Wolf (2004). “Why Globalization Works”, p.268, Yale University Press

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• What (Stephen) Hawking says in his book The Grand Design is the universe exists because it needed to exist, and because it needed to exist, it therefore created itself. His conclusion merely restates his premise, which means his argument is circular. Nonsense is nonsense, even when spoken by famous scientists.

  John Lennox

  Book, Mean, Design

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• All new ideas pass through three stages: first they are dismissed as nonsense, then they are rejected as being against religion and finally they are acknowledged as the truth, with the proviso from the initial opponents that they knew it all along.

  Karl Ernst von Baer

  Ideas, Three, Opponents

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

  Horace

  Now And Then, Pleasant

  "Odes". Book by Horace, IV. 12. 27, 13 BC.

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• People who believe in ghosts think that dead people can walk through locked doors. Nonsense - they have to use a key like the rest of us.

  John Avery

  Believe, Thinking, Keys

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• To say whatever nonsense comes into your head without any repercussions has got to be a bigger high than heckling a movie screen in a darkened theater.

  Lenny Bruce

  Heckling, Theater, Bigger

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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