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Nonsense Quotes
Lines that turn foolishness into wit, or shut it down flat.
This page leans on wordplay and firmness rather than complaint: one line treats sense and nonsense as evolving side by side, almost as a joke about logic itself, while another is a short, blunt refusal to put up with foolishness. For more on sharp thinking, see Know.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just don't stand for any nonsense.
- Nov 07, 2020
Oh yes, I've been approached to do all sorts of nonsense. How about a remake of 'West Side Story?'
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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- Nov 07, 2020
This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.
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There's no such thing as The Method. The term 'method-acting' is so much nonsense. There are many methods, many techniques.
- Downton Abbey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans should be ashamed of how aflutter they get about Downton Abbey - it's unpatriotic. I seem to remember we fought a revolution so as not to put up with this nonsense, where notions of station are so unforgiving that upper and lower echelons are practically different species.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.
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We don't see a lot of LGBTQ representation in period dramas because there was so much shame around it at the time. The stories that we tell about that time don't tend to focus explicitly on those sorts of characters, which is nonsense because they existed.
- Nuclear Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.
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The trick to my writing, it turned out, was doing so exclusively in bed. The minute I even dared to discipline myself and write at the desk, I produced mounds of nonsense. Yet, sitting in bed, I wrote easily, effortlessly, fluidly. I became the master of perfect indiscipline.
- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of what I do - I have to try and make sense of things before I can make nonsense of them.
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