Nonsense Quotations | Page 4

We're eliminating the nonsense. I'm fed up. I'm sick of losing at home and playing terrible basketball. Nonsense is always a distraction.

I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry. What irritates me more is when people aren't respectful. There's a lot of nonsense behavior, especially in a place like Hollywood. The money, the power, they create little monsters.

To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.

It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.

I don't want to talk about nonsense because it doesn't help me.

Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.

She is a no-nonsense judge, and she doesn't abide by nonsense from the defense or the prosecutor. Being a former assistant U.S. attorney, she holds the government attorneys to a very high standard, which is as it should be. She is evidently very disturbed by the developments in this case, which is as it should be as well.

Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense