Nonsense Quotes - Page 26

• It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.

  Gregory Bateson

  Men, Doe, Nucleus

  "Mind and Nature - a Necessary Unity". Book by Gregory Bateson, new edition, 1988.

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• Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Sex, This Generation, Generations

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first.

  Arsenio Hall

  Father, Scripture, Firsts

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• A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.

  F. L. Lucas

  Men, May, Tomorrow

  F. L. Lucas (2012). “Style: The Art of Writing Well”, p.322, Harriman House Limited

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• Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Writing, School

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.61, Routledge

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• New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.

  Dustin Clare

  Mean, Australia, New Zealand

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

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• Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

  Alfred Bester

  Silly, Fiction, Science Fiction

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't like the Samba; it's nonsense. With a lot of these Latin dances I can't really understand what they're all about. I like the Rumba and the Paso Doble but the others I could take or leave.

  Anton du Beke

  Latin, Rumba, Samba

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The popular image that Hollywood is ruined by difficult prima donna actors is nonsense. They're certainly very nice to directors. I can't say the same about producers, who I found difficult, paranoid, and certifiably insane, mostly.

  Nigel Cole

  Nice, Insane, Directors

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• Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Holocaust, Fields, Study

  "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering". Book by Norman Finkelstein, 2000.

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• I'm not against entertainment: if someone wants to read nonsense-mongers, let them, but I resent the appearance of parity between two articles on an issue as serious as climate change when one article is actually gibberish masked in pseudoscience and the other is well informed and accurate.

  Jay Griffiths

  Two, Issues, Climate

  "Don't give climate change heretics an easy ride" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

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• My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

  Josef Albers

  Father, Parent, Theatre

  "Oral history interview with Josef Albers". Interview with Sevim Fesci, New Haven, Connecticut, www.aaa.si.edu. June 22, 1968.

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• Brainless writers gossip nonsense to others heads as dense as they is.

  George Harrison

  Art, Media, Gossip

  Song: Wreck Of The Hesperus, Album: Cloud Nine

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• I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Facts, Mystery

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• The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Ideas, Energy, Nuclear

  "'Butting Heads with the Americans Doesn't Do Any Good'". Interview with Christian Schwärgerl and Markus Feldenkirchen, www.spiegel.de. January 29, 2008.

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• Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

  Kal Penn

  News, Done, Down And

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• I drove an electric car for seven years because of its advanced technology, not because I have any concerns about energy resources. I have none at all. And when environmentalists say that global warming is dangerous, unprecedented and that we'll have a tipping point for atmospheric carbon dioxide, it's just nonsense.

  Burt Rutan

  Technology, Years, Car

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• Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Excess, Half, Ransom

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

  Anton Seidl

  Simple, Voice, Phrases

  Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.103, Parrot Press

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• Naturally, along the way, there are beings and forces that will challenge you. They want to try and get some of your power, take it away from you, all this nonsense, and of course, you just defeat them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Challenges, Trying, Want

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• It is my experience that people who don't participate in society, who don't have jobs, who don't have friends, are just very stuck in irresponsibility and cultism and all kinds of nonsense.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Buddhism, People

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• When the time comes for a change, you will find it occurring without having created it yourself. You may think that you are the doer and that you are creating the change. That's nonsense.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Creating

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• They don't understand the multi-life sequences. Anything they can't see in a laboratory, they think is nonsense.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Humanity

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• I understand your higher and lower tendencies. There is something beyond all of this nonsense. There is a wonderful glitter that you can follow in life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Glitter

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• It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to gain your objective. War is basically the same thing on a larger scale.

  Gene Sharp

  War, People, Gains

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