Search in quotes: nonsense

8 quotes

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not...

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

Quote by Joseph Addison about music, nothing, being

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way...

Quote by Ray Bradbury about affair, friendship, time, love, contentment

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Quote by Charles Dickens about honesty, idea, bad luck, bad, man, day, contentment, face

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British...

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

Quote by Anthony Hopkins about interest, rest

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of...

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

Quote by Vladimir Nabokov about pointless, evolution, common sense, sense

I read the other day in a book by a fashionable essayist...

I read the other day in a book by a fashionable essayist that ghosts went out when the electric light came in. What nonsense!

Quote by Edith Wharton about opinion, light, day

Just the inexplicable wants to be understood within the...

Just the inexplicable wants to be understood within the nonsense of emptiness that belongs to this world of illusion.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about knowledge, wisdom, world

To commit the greatest nonsense you have to do it with...

To commit the greatest nonsense you have to do it with intelligence.

Quote by Marius Torok about stupidity, intelligence, contentment

Last quotes

You shoot my finger, trigger finger, boss finger, Boian... (Anghel Damian)

I’m trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am.... (Kim Ung-Yong)

Everything that men do or think concerns the satisfaction... (Albert Einstein)

I have only two rules which I regard as principles of... (Albert Einstein)

Top quotes

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the... (William Blake)

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is... (Henry Ford)

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the... (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. (Samuel Beckett)

Random quotes

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by... (C. Northcote Parkinson)

It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was,... (Mark Oliphant)

In the eyes of your professor, you are ALWAYS wrong, so... (Edward A. Murphy)

Certainly the idea of an international police force... (Lester B. Pearson)

Authors

Famous quotes

Folklore