Nonsense Quotes - Page 15

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

  Gerrit Smith

  Rights, Turkeys

  Gerrit Smith (1856). “Speeches of Gerrit Smith in Congress [1853-1854].”, p.18

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• The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.

  Billy Sunday

  Order, Needs, World

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• The first thing I do each morning is get out of bed and give my dog, Audrey, a hug. She's a Jack Russell. I think having an animal is a wonderful thing, particularly dogs. They are great levelers, there's no nonsense with them, and they just want simple affection.

  Donatella Versace

  Dog, Morning, Simple

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

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• I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

  Bill Watterson

  World, Favors, Fairness

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• People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Running, People, Environmental

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

  Earl Wilson

  Funny, Witty, Money

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• I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humorous, Food

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

  Andrew Young

  Preacher, Make Sense, Ifs

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• No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Misfortunes

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• The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.

  Richard Bach

  Lying, Book, Writing

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• [Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.

  Thornton Wilder

  Race, Layers, Our Town

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• Calvin: Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it's weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity. We laugh at nonsense. We like it. We think it's funny. Don't you think it's odd that we appreciate absurdity? Why would we develop that way? How does it benefit us? Hobbes: I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.

  Bill Watterson

  Thinking, Appreciate, Giving

  "The Days Are Just Packed". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1993.

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• If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as "worship.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Ignorance, Light, Intellectual

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• Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

  Jane Austen

  Laughing, Whim, Inconsistency

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.49

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• No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.

  Julia Quinn

  Book, Wells, Printed

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• These issues that exist among people that we are Iranian and what we need to do for Iran are not correct; these issues are not correct. This issue, which is perhaps being discussed everywhere, regarding paying attention to nation and nationality is nonsense in Islam and is against Islam. One of the things that the designers of Imperialism and their agents have promoted is the idea of nation and nationality.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Iran, Ideas, Issues

  Mehregan Magazine, Volume 12, Numbers 1 & 2 (p. 16), 2003.

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• It is time for the truth to be brought out... Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense... I urge immediate Congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy about Unidentified Flying Objects

  Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter

  Believe, Air, Flying

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• Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick; it was a mechanism to earn a few hundred men and women incredible sums of money.

  Doris Lessing

  Men, Incredibles, Eternity

  "The Summer Before the Dark". Book by Doris Lessing, 1973.

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• But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the sky and see the utter nonsense of everything including all the solemn stuff given out by professional asses about the spiritual life; and simply to burst out laughing, and laugh and laugh, with the sky and the trees because God is not in words, and not in systems, and not in liturgical movements, and not in "contemplation" with a big "C," or in asceticism or in anything like that, not even in the apostolate.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Laughter, Sky

  Thomas Merton (2011). “The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters”, p.35, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run.

  James Russell Lowell

  Running, Winter, Long

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.21

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• The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

  Northrop Frye

  Beauty, Temptation, Ego

  Northrop Frye (2014). “The Northrop Frye Quote Book”, p.46, Dundurn

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• Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to write total nonsense for as long as I need to release the pressure, because it's really hard to start if you feel like that first sentence you write has to actually mean something.

  Ann Brashares

  Jobs, Writing, Mean

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• What happens a lot with songwriting is that a melody or rhythm or something stays with you like catching a cold. And during that time what happens is that I can then fit things on to it, it all fits and glues together. Sometimes it's crazy cos it can almost be anything. But if you catch the cold then the nonsense makes sense. It's like you're getting beamed it, like with a ouija board and something's pushing your hand. It's not a pleasant experience necessarily.

  Thom Yorke

  Crazy, Hands, Together

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• Over the past eighteen years I have acted as a scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force on the subject of unidentified flying objects - UFO's. As a consequence of my work on the voluminous air force files and, to a greater extent, of personal investigation of many puzzling cases and interviews with witnesses of good repute, I have long been aware that the subject of UFO's could not be dismissed as mere nonsense.

  J. Allen Hynek

  Past, Air, Years

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• She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in chess, that I should get friends outside of chess, you can't make a living from chess, that I should finish high school and all that nonsense. She keeps in my hair and I don't like people in my hair, you know, so I had to get rid of her.

  Bobby Fischer

  School, Eye, Squares

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