Nonsense Quotes
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The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense...
Hedi Slimane
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I can't negotiate and collaborate with a character to create a distilled dramatic investigation of the raw material. I need to work with an actor. That stuff about actors who stay in character all the time is nonsense.
Mike Leigh
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Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world — Los Angeles in the '50s — they made perfect sense.
Wanda Coleman
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I hate all the loathsome nonsense that goes with patriotism.
Albert Einstein
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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.
Susan Strasberg
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"We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has."
William Goldman
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It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.
Virginia Woolf
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Mr. Hunt was in sympathy with the methods we ourselves were in the habit of using when we painted butterflies and seaweeds, placing perfectly pure pigments side by side, without any nonsense about chiaroscuro.
Edmund Gosse
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
Anne Carson
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As for the criticism we receive, you know, even Mr. [Donald] Trump's team criticize us. For instance, one of the participants or members of his team claimed that Russia was giving money to the Clintons through some funds and that in fact Russia is controlling the Clinton family. This is nonsense.
Vladimir Putin
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Most theatre is still really bad. It has to appeal to people who do jobs and have lives. Theatre about theatre is the most awful, terminal nonsense.
Mike Bartlett
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September is pantyhose month. No nonsense.
Dave Parker
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A great idea goes through three stages on its way to acceptance: 1) it is dismissed as nonsense, 2) it is acknowledged as true, but insignificant, 3) finally, it is seen to be important, but not really anything new.
William James
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The gloves are off. We're taking no more nonsense from anybody.
Ian Paisley
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I mistrust these people in music industry who can be everybody. This is where technology dictates to them. I mistrust that, that in somehow the chips capture the soul of a player, that's patent nonsense.
Elvis Costello
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When I'm photographing, I don't have that kind of nonsense running around in my head. I'm photographing. It's irrelevant in the end, so it doesn't mean a thing. It's not going to make me do better work or worse work as I can see it now.
Garry Winogrand
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A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!
Berkeley Breathed
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That was the first time ever in history that anybody got Special Guest Star. I started that whole nonsense.
Jonathan Harris
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I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating, nor was it wholly nonsense for Kepler to exult that he was thinking God's thoughts after him. The world for me is a necessary system, and in the degree to which the thinker can surrender his thought to that system and follow it, he is in a sense participating in that which is timeless or eternal.
Brand Blanshard
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Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?
Alan Sokal
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The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.
Arthur Frederick Saunders
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
Emily Bronte
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You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.
Tom Rachman