- Nov 07, 2020
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
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first 'Interdimensional Cable' episode is amazing because it's filled with such absolute drunken nonsense.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's so much nonsense tossed around about L.A. and how horrible it is and 'don't go out there' and all that stuff. So I went out to L.A. and I was pleasantly surprised.
- Nov 07, 2020
That was the first time ever in history that anybody got Special Guest Star. I started that whole nonsense.
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It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
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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.
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All my indispositions have their source in my mind. It is when I am restless and unhappy that I become susceptible of cold, damp, heats, and such nonsense.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As children know, there's lots of fun in nonsense. We never stop benefiting from staying flexible, open and responsive, even in the midst of confusion.
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What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?
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By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Claiming that solid rockets are necessary for a heavy-lift launcher is obvious nonsense.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.
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