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Quotations regarding 'Nonsense'

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Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
Evita Peron, Argentinian Statesman (1919-1952)
Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?
William Pitt, British Leader (1759-  )
Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.
Richard Pryor, American Actor (1940-2005)
Miss Rice talks very tough. We have gotten used to this nonsense. Miss Rice is a bit emotional about this, and we predicted that she would have a more emotional approach to this.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iranian Politician (1934-  )
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.
John C. Ransom, -
You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense.
John C. Reilly, American Actor (1965-  )
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Carl Sagan, American Scientist (1934-1996)
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
George Santayana, American Philosopher (1863-1952)
There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.
Arthur Scargill, British Politician (1938-  )
On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
Otto Schily, German Public Servant (1932-  )
It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.
Anton Seidl, Hungarian Celebrity (1850-1898)
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Dr. Seuss, American Writer (1904-1991)
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist (1856-1950)
To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.
Gerrit Smith, American Politician (1797-1874)
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
Anne Sullivan, American Educator (1866-1936)
I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
Mike Tyson, American Athlete (1966-  )
Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
Jim Wallis, American Writer (1948-  )
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
Horace Walpole, English Author (1717-1797)
The game has changed. What's going on now is nonsense. You have guys complaining about not being paid.
David Wells, American Athlete (1963-  )
Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.
Earl Wilson, American Athlete (1934-2005)
 
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