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I have a real no-nonsense dad who taught me how to be resilient at a very young age.
— Nicole Ari Parker
No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly
— Michel De Montaigne
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
— Bertrand Russell
My grandmother raised me. She was a real no-nonsense but very funny lady. I drove tractors, made hay, milked cows, fed the chicken, fed the pigs.
— Carol Bartz
I tell you, the sperm will stand no nonsense.
— Herman Melville
Some people will make nonsense excuses to avoid things they have no interest in doing.
— Ellen J. Barrier
There's no such thing as The Method. The term 'method-acting' is so much nonsense. There are many methods, many techniques.
— Susan Strasberg
But they all recognized the steady, no-nonsense influence Jack had had on Truman; he was the ballast to Truman's airy sails.
— Melanie Benjamin
Work smart. Get things done. No nonsense. Move fast.
— Susan Wojcicki
There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty.
— Anthony Trollope
When people work together, they have no time for nonsense.
— Stef Wertheimer
Where Melisandre thinks to find a sleeping dragon, no one is quite sure. It's nonsense. Mance's blood is no more royal than mine own.
— George R R Martin
Either theology is pure nonsense, a subject with no content, or else theology must ultimately become a branch of physics.
— Frank Tipler
Marena looked at all of them out of her big, calm, shining eyes. "Love is no nonsense," she said. "It has to come.
— Felix Salten
Of course,Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture.
— W. H. Auden
My aunt always says that if you put your mind to it, you can do absolutely anything," Jake said. "Is that true?" "No," I said. "It's nonsense.
— Lemony Snicket
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
— George Bernard Shaw
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
"If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense. — Charlotte Bronte
For God's sake. In movies, they fix the note to a dog's collar and it trots off obediently, no nonsense.
— Sophie Kinsella
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
— Robertson Davies
You wish to sail a ship up stream by lighting a fire under its decks, I have no time for such nonsense.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Nanny Ogg was sitting out in her back garden in the no-nonsense way of old ladies everywhere, legs wide apart for the healthy circulation of air.
— Terry Pratchett
New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.
— Dustin Clare
As Kierkegaard said, "To win a crowd is no art; for that only untruth is needed, nonsense, and a little knowledge of human passions.
— Brian Zahnd
Anything that's strange is no good to the average American. If it doesn't have Chicago plumbing, it's nonsense.
— Ray Bradbury
It's all chop-change chop-change with you. Either go out with me and treat me nicely, or leave me alone. As I say, I am not interested in fuckwittage.
— Helen Fielding
The bits which did mean anything were often so wonderfully buried that no one could ever spot them slipping past in the avalanche of nonsense.
— Douglas Adams
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
There is no systematic corruption in FIFA. That is nonsense. We are financially clean and clear.
— Sepp Blatter
She'd stepped out of sex as if out of a loose dress. Now she was brisk, decisive, no nonsense.
— Margaret Atwood
Cut away the nonsense, the drama, the regret, the scars of the past, and make a decision to no longer let them govern your happiness and freedom.
— Steve Maraboli
No Blame: The most liberating and empowering day of my life was the day I freed myself from my own self-destructive nonsense.
— Steve Maraboli
There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.
— Leigh Hunt
I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.
— Daniil Kharms
Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good.
— William Hurlbut
Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.
— Richard Dawkins
Nonsense of this type is more difficult to combat than a solid lie. It hides in rubbish heaps and moves when no one is looking.
— E. M. Forster
I tell you, the sperm whale will stand no nonsense.
— Herman Melville
My cosmetic range, easy4Men, is not going that well. It's meant to be for the no-nonsense man, but now I don't know if the no-nonsense man exists.
— Stelios Haji-Ioannou
Dive bars are much more my thing. They're no-nonsense.
— Scott Eastwood
Our brain is so full of nonsense there is no room for common sense.
— Debasish Mridha
September is pantyhose month. No nonsense.
— Dave Parker
There are ways of doing stunts without me. I get no pleasure putting my life in jeopardy just to get the shot. Life is too short for that nonsense.
— Eva Green
We are no longer the knights who say Ni! We are now the knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing!
— Graham Chapman
Don't waste any of your precious time or energy on negativity. There's no time for that nonsense.
— Tanya Masse
I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
— Bear Grylls
I think all those ancient prophecies are so full of poetic nonsense that half the time no one understands what they mean." ~ Helen
— Josephine Angelini
Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam Connell.
— Steven-Elliot Altman
In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.
— Cesar Chavez
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
It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum! We made it to Hollywood, time to give these aliens the golden boot!" - Angel from the Thousand Years War
— Angel Ramon Medina
A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.
— Tom Stoppard
When common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.
— L.M. Montgomery