Nonsense Quotes
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
Samuel Butler
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You want less of the annoying nonsense that interferes with your portfolios and more of the significant data that allow you to become a less distracted, more purposeful investor.
Barry Ritholtz
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Poetry does so many different things, it's difficult to say anything definitive about its role, which of course varies from culture to culture. It can range from being stories of the tribe to the private lyric, to being as W.H. Auden said "the clear expression of mixed feelings" to nonsense verse.
Stephen Dunn
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It's a nonsense because, as we all know, there are brilliant 15-year-old readers and hopeless 50-year-old readers. All that categorisation is a matter of bookshop shelves rather than literary categories, I think.
Mal Peet
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What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.
Ivan Turgenev
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It is nonsense for the Attorney General to say she had no more options.
Dennis Hastert
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We're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at the flick of a switch, taught to keep our heads down and our elbows in and shut off our minds and shut off our sex. We learn we can't even piss when we have to. That's how we learn to be plastic and dumb.
Marge Piercy
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You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
Moliere
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Ring around the rosie. A pocket full of posie. Ashes ashes, we all fall down. Some people say that this poem is about the Black Death, the fourteenth-century plague that killed 100-million people... Sadly, though, most experts think this is nonsense... How can I be so sure about this rhyme when all the experts disagree? Because I ate the kid who made it up.
Scott Westerfeld
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It's as if to be interesting, you had to be depressed and messy, but that's complete nonsense.
Edgardo Osorio
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Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.
Ian Frazier
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I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of its freedom of will, heroism on command, senseless violence, and all of the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism.
Albert Einstein
