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Stuff and nonsense. Nonsense and stuff and much of a muchness and nonsense all over again. We are al...
MARISSA MEYER People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That's utt...
BERNARD MARCUS Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.
LEWIS CARROLL This is utter nonsense, entirely unrealistic and contrary to the lessons of recent history.
AJAI SAHNI The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearne, but it is still nonsense.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Well, India is a country of nonsense
MAHATMA GANDHI All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
SAMUEL BUTLER The learned fool writes nonsense in better language that the unlearned - but it's still nonsense.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
SAMUEL BUTLER Nonsense remains nonsense, even when talked by world-famous scientists.
JOHN C. LENNOX If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because every...
LEWIS CARROLL Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your no...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited
GEORGE SANTAYANA A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.
HORACE WALPOLE Conductor, when you receive a fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare. A blue trip slip ...
MARK TWAIN (PSEUDONYM OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS) From the Squirrel skin Marcosset Made some mittens for our hero. Mittens with the fur-side ins...
REV. GEORGE AUGUSTUS STRONG (USED PSEUDONYM MARC ANTONY HENDERSON) There's a skin without and a skin within, A covering skin and a lining skin, But the skin with...
OLD SONG When Bryan O'Lynn had no shirt to put on, He took him a sheep skin to make him a' one. "With t...
OLD SONG No one is exempt from taking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly.
MICHAEL EYQUEN DE MONTAIGNE How pleasant to know Mr. Lear! Who has written such volumes of stuff! Some think him ill-tempe...
EDWARD LEAR To vanish nonsense with the charms of sound.
CHARLES CHURCHILL 'T was brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borog...
LEWIS CARROLL (PSEUDONYM OF REV. CHARLES L. DODGSON) For blocks are better cleft with wedges, Tan tools of sharp or subtle edges, And dullest nonse...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.
UNKNOWN Benjamin Hardlysee decided to point it out to me.
DAVID GAY Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance
ALDOUS HUXLEY Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect
FREDERICK SAUNDERS A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men
WILLY WONKA He killed the noble Mudjokivis. Of the skin he made him mittens, Made them with the fur side i...
ANONYMOUS Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting!
AGATHA CHRISTIE Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
E. M. FORSTER We need a Katrina reconstruction commission headed by a no-nonsense, nonpolitical, businessman manag...
DAVID VITTER She's the best player in SCISAA. And that's not arguably or any of that nonsense. But we just didn't...
ANTHONY HOUSTON That's just a lot of nonsense. It points to the fact that he does not have any issues to talk about.
HAROLD TAYLOR I was supposed to be gutted but that's all nonsense. I'm happy as I am. I'm single and not looking f...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY We'll have to see," Belbo said. He rummaged in his drawer and took out some sheets of paper. "Potio-...
UMBERTO ECO That is absolutely nonsense, ... Those kinds of statements are not helpful.
ABDEL RAHMAN Dis and dis and deese and dose
HUGH PIERCE That's nonsense. The association never sets prices - the big mills do based on costs and supply and ...
QI XIANGDONG We are extremely happy to have Steve back as our Chief Steward. He has a no-nonsense approach and hi...
RON BENNETT It is nonsense for the Attorney General to say she had no more options,
DENNIS HASTERT When Ford comes along and says that Toyota is manipulating the supply, it's nonsense. Toyota develop...
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CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.
LEWIS CARROLL in nonsense is strength
KURT VONNEGUT The words I'm singing now Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS They're bringing it in faster than they're getting it out.
DAVID GAY The idea that it's going to be midnight in the middle of the afternoon is just nonsense.
JUDAH LEVINE Nonsense is always a distraction.
JEFF VAN GUNDY This notion that we want to shock Muslims, that is complete nonsense. They don't need to agree in th...
MAUD BREDERO Maybe you aren't as smart as you think you are, Mr. Stark."

"Nonsense. I'm fucking brilli...
J. KENNER It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily percei...
PHILIP K. DICK It's my responsibility, ... It just was utter nonsense that it happened and I feel bad for Freddie a...
WAYNE GRETZKY Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
CHARLES LAMB 'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
CHARLES LAMB This is unconscionable. I will not apologize for anything. This is utter nonsense. The way he has ha...
DUANE SMITH The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.
CHARLES LAMB nonsense environment.
JANIS JOPLIN It Takes Sense To Sense, Non-Sense
SYED SHARUKH Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of w...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
JOSEPH ADDISON If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totall...
DALAI LAMA Not to put too fine a point on it, but that's nonsense,
CHARLES RUFF Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find your...
LAURENCE GONZALES Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking n...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the mistake is to do it solemnly
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE It is nonsense to say that these areas do not contribute to the economy.
DOUGLAS KEATINGE Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on real...
GARY ZUKAV He talks nonsense.
DAVID TUVILL The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of
the word "Infinite".
Infin...
DOUGLAS ADAMS He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
JOHN MCCARTHY The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard no...
LEWIS CARROLL Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
ROBERT FROST Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
ROBERT FROST Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense
ROBERT FROST Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense.
ROBERT FROST Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonse...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense
ERIC BUTTERWORTH SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its...
ANTON SEIDL There is already enough chattering nonsense on the ground. Do we really need aviaries in pressurised...
ALEX MORRITT ...there's nothing wrong with occasionally staring out the window and thinking nonsense, as long as ...
LEMONY SNICKET We’ll never survive!”
“Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.
WILLIAM GOLDMAN Apple Computers is a famous example: it was founded by (mostly Republi­can) computer engineers who ...
DAVID GRAEBER If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.
NORTON JUSTER [But Kim called that argument] simply nonsense, ... a man who used his name to get to the top of thi...
JOHN GOTTI It is nonsense to even think that what the band wear for their shows at this point in their career i...
THE ROLLING STONES I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting th...
MIKE TYSON Violet Beauregarde: [with her finger in her nose] Spitting's a nasty habit.
Willy Wonka: I know ...
WILLY WONKA Chewing Gum is really gross, chewing gum I hate the most.
WILLY WONKA "Everything in this room is eatable. In fact even I am eatable, but that is called canabalism my dea...
WILLY WONKA Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
SALVADOR DALí A careless song, with a little nonsense in it, now and then, does not misbecome a monarch
HORACE WALPOLE "If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because ever...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Nonsense. I would like to say, quite formally and clearly, that my government would never allow some...
VACLAV KLAUS It is a nonsense, it is a waste of resources and it is a silly way for any person to make their poin...
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DOUGLAS ADAMS Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sen...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have...
DOUGLAS ADAMS It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
DOUGLAS ADAMS In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
DOUGLAS ADAMS He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existenc...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola
DOUGLAS ADAMS Even traveling despondently is better than arriving here.
DOUGLAS ADAMS The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a...
DOUGLAS ADAMS My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre,' h...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Same as you, Arthur. I hitched a ride. After all, with a degree in maths and another in astrophysics...
DOUGLAS ADAMS He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house.
DOUGLAS ADAMS If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non...
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