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Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.
— Georg Solti
No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly
— Michel De Montaigne
The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony. — Samuel Butler
Theories were clean and convincing and comprehensible. Life was messy and full of nonsense.
— Julian Barnes
Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?
— William Pitt
It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I hate all the loathsome nonsense that goes with patriotism.
— Albert Einstein
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
— Benjamin Franklin
Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
— Bill Drayton
It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense
— Mark Twain
It has occured to Charlotte that men are full of petulant nonsense,and that their supposed strength is rather less than a girl's.
— Sheila Kohler
I tell you, the sperm will stand no nonsense.
— Herman Melville
Every barber thinks everybody needs a haircut.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Nonsense, I have not yet begun to defile myself.
— Doc Holliday
A man who does not see stuff and nonsense in a moonshine will blow his life to bits.
— Anyaele Sam Chiyson
At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.
— Amanda Donohoe
To say that it all came about 6,000 years ago is just nonsense, and I think it's time we come off of that stuff and say this isn't possible
— Pat Robertson
True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.
— Piet Pieterszoon Hein
When people work together, they have no time for nonsense.
— Stef Wertheimer
Either theology is pure nonsense, a subject with no content, or else theology must ultimately become a branch of physics.
— Frank Tipler
It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.
— Virginia Woolf
He could do nothing but twist his moustache, drink, and chatter the most inept nonsense that can possibly be imagined.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The nonsense that charms is close to sense.
— Mason Cooley
I know that I reached a point where I wasn't going to let the nonsense happening before me slide anymore.
— Ariana Madix
To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.
— Ayn Rand
Too much righteousness makes you a nonsense
— Umar Hassan
In a world of common nonsense, our best defence is common sense.
— Juliet Castle
Witches see the truth plainly - even if their husbands are full of nonsense.
— Deborah Harkness
Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and a half of nonsense.
— Jason Statham
If you behaved properly, they would, but knowing you like their nonsense, they keep it up, and then you blame them.
— Louisa May Alcott
Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When people expect you to react to their nonsense, remain calm and silent. It's good for the soul and makes them think twice.
— Karen Gibbs
Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.
— Neil Postman
Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.
— Arthur Frederick Saunders
To talk nonsense in one's own way is almost better than to talk a truth that's someone else's
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
He wondered if she realized that for all she complained about his alpha nonsense, she was pure-blooded alpha herself. Rowan
— Sarah J. Maas
Poetry is sublime nonsense.
— Marty Rubin
Jill, of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to do, every time.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Well, India is a country of nonsense. M. K. Gandhi
— V.S. Naipaul
I don't believe all this nonsense about market timing. Just buy good value and when the market is ready that value will be recognized.
— Henry Earl Singleton
When things don't add up, either you don't have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.
— Shannon L. Alder
Claiming that solid rockets are necessary for a heavy-lift launcher is obvious nonsense.
— Henry Spencer
The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
— Jim Harrison
Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey!
— Zachary Taylor
Nonsense. Fools refuse to try something new.
— Dorian Cirrone
Nonsense. It's elves!
— Natalie Babbitt
Vanity and superficiality, placed deliberately on display, can be a burden; take this nonsense overboard.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock.
— Thomas Hardy
I was thinking, So, I'm Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.
— Robert Graves
Rest assured you make perfectly good nonsense. I understand you one-hundred-percent not at all.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Nonsense is socially OK, but not stupidity.
— Mason Cooley
If I propose to myself and myself says yes, I get to have the cake, right? I love me, so I'm thinking 12 tiers.
— Michelle M. Pillow
It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.
— Daniel Kahneman
To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite while foolish people speak nonsense
— Morton Blackwell
Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.
— Charles Baudelaire
Oh yes, I've been approached to do all sorts of nonsense. How about a remake of 'West Side Story?'
— Terry Zwigoff
Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness.
— Maj Sjowall
Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must triumph.
— Swami Vivekananda
The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.
— Sigmar Gabriel
A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.
— Ambrose Bierce
An idea so dangerous it can't be discussed. I thought we buried all that nonsense back in the Dark Ages.
— Alastair Reynolds
It is not nonsense and nobody asked you; you aren't competent to have an opinion about it.
— Robert A. Heinlein
For God's sake. In movies, they fix the note to a dog's collar and it trots off obediently, no nonsense.
— Sophie Kinsella
Logic was my favorite class in school. I like it because it's a way to see HOW what someone says is nonsense.
— Donna Leon
Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.
— Samuel Davies
