Nonsense Quotes - Page 34

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

  Augustus Hare

  Mother, Tired, Boys

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• A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.

  Anthony Hecht

  Fun, Lying, Trying

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• My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

  Jim Henson

  Happy Life, World, Live By

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• I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Hogwash, Sentimental, Fame

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

  Jean Kerr

  Beauty, Beautiful, Tired

  The Snake Has All the Lines (1958)

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• You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.

  Christine Lagarde

  Thinking, People, Ego

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• If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

  Dalai Lama

  Views, People, Miracle

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• I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

  Queen Latifah

  Art, Cutting, Want

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• I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.

  John Lydon

  Car, Reason, Habit

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• The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.

  John Lydon

  Records, Contracts, Company

  "John Lydon boosts his Public Image with new album". Interview With Iain Blair, www.reuters.com. May 25, 2012.

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• When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

  John Lydon

  Gains, Poverty, Chaos

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, 'Women will have their little nonsense and needless cares.'

  Jane Austen

  Dirty, Men, Gentleman

  "Emma". Book by Jane Austen. Volume 2, Chapter 11, 1816.

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• I'm sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much, and that it is what's on the inside that counts. This is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on this inside would would never have to comb their hair or take a bath, and the whole world would smell even worse than it already does.

  Daniel Handler

  Hair, Smell, People

  "The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 4)". Book by Lemony Snicket (pen name of Daniel Handler), April 15, 2000.

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• I turned down Halloween parties every year, where people wanted zombies raised at the stroke of midnight or some such nonsense. The scarier my reputation got, the more people wanted me to come be scary for them. I'd told Bert I could always go and threaten to shoot all the partygoers, that'd be scary. Bert had not been amused. But he had stopped asking me to do parties.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Halloween, Party, Years

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15”, p.30, Penguin

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• Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Remains

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Enjoy Life, Needs

  "The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich". Book by Tim Ferriss, 2007.

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• It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey to any denomination. The best that can be said is that this is pluralism of a kind.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Country, Atheist, Law

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• It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

  Virginia Woolf

  Differences, People, Heaven

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.7, Tyché

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• Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange. "That has a sort of moral usefulness, I suppose, in making one feel uncomfortable and encouraging sober reflection upon one's imperfections.

  Susanna Clarke

  Cat, Reflection, Imperfection

  Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.636, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Mistake, Wish, Would Be

  Charlotte Bronte, K. M. Weiland (2014). “Jane Eyre”, p.145, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• And He [God] and you are two things of such a kind that if you really get into any kind of touch with Him you will, in fact, be humble--delightedly humble, feeling the infinite relief of having for once got rid of all the silly nonsense about your own dignity which has made you restless and unhappy all your life.

  C. S. Lewis

  Silly, Humble, Two

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• I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best friends must necessarily be the ones who best understand you. As if there weren't far too much understanding in the world already; above all, that understanding between lovers, celebrated in song and story, which is actually such torture that no two of them can bear it without frequent separations or fights.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Song, Fighting, Thinking

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• When I get married,' said Fred, tugging at the collar of his own robes. 'I won't be bothering with any of this nonsense. You can all wear what you like and I'll put a full body-bind curse on mum until it's over.

  J. K. Rowling

  Tugging, Body, Married

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• I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Choke

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• I’d heard you were dead.” "I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Believe, Red, Matter

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear”, p.1064, Penguin

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