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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop. I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by pointing out that he is obviously an atheist.
The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.
The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.
The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens . Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air.
I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.
One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
I don't mind Twitter. I think it's a lot of nonsense, but at least, to me, Twitter is just more of a public forum to have conversation.
There's so much nonsense tossed around about L.A. and how horrible it is and 'don't go out there' and all that stuff. So I went out to L.A. and I was pleasantly surprised.
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
[...] to judge from the Internet postings that people have sent me, probably most of what you learned [about me] was nonsense.
It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world, especially if you’re alone.
It has become fashionable in Washington to argue that Obamacare cannot be reversed. That is nonsense. It's a fight worth waging, and a fight which can be won.
Barring wacky nonsense, I'm going to end my career in a Ring of Honor ring. And that to me is fine. It's poetic justice.
Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.
Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense.
Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
But I've got ideas. I keep my little notebook, I've always got that with me. Hopefully there's more stuff than nonsense in there.
It's nonsense that people join the army to serve the country, like the politicians do it only for the sake of the country.
Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.
Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all the rest of it. Not to be obsessed with quail-fighting or other crazes like that.
I only like non-fiction. After 30 pages of fiction, I think: what nonsense are they trying to write.
Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.
The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.
The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It’s all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.
To say whatever nonsense comes into your head without any repercussions has got to be a bigger high than heckling a movie screen in a darkened theater.
The notion of the competitiveness of countries, on the model of the competitiveness of companies, is nonsense.
Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.
Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey!
Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.
Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion. This is absolute nonsense. If anything, it's the reverse.
There isn't much point in the whole 'celebrity' nonsense unless one is prepared to go out on a limb and, one hopes, speak up for some under-represented section of the community.
I planted trees but the idea that you can offset carbon is nonsense - planting trees is more a way of acknowledging harm and apologising.
The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians - and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.
I don't worry about who they're putting in front of me. Why would I? That's just nonsense for me to waste my energy.
Imagine maintaining 70 brands in a digital world - it is a nonsense. It is better to focus on a fewer, more distinct brands.
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
Either theology is pure nonsense, a subject with no content, or else theology must ultimately become a branch of physics.
For some reason people say such negative things about having a baby - you won't sleep, the stress, the crying. Nonsense. It's a total joy so cherish every second.
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
I'm not going to grant Bobby Green his wishes by fighting him and responding to his nonsense.
Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
Amber London is a political rapper, a preaching rapper who speaks true facts and not just nonsense.
I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.
Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.
We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.
If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
I leave it very open because, at the end of the day, it's one of those things where I shouldn't have to reinforce and state, 'No, I'm a heterosexual' - because that's all nonsense.
We have all been told that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I have long thought this is nonsense.
I don't know why so much nonsense about age is written - although I can certainly understand that no one really wants to read anything that says aging sucks.
My dad was a slightly stricter version of Richard Dawkins. The worldview was that there are idiots out there who believe in Santa Claus and fairies and magic and elves, and we're not joining that nonsense.
I would love to be part of dark comedies. I love them! They are no-nonsense, no spoonfeeding, and the norms and cliches are left behind.
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.
To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality
The bouncer shouldn't be banned. Hitting batsmen, I'm afraid, is part of the game. But it's the histrionics, the nonsense, the prancing, the in-your-face nastiness. It's become accepted, and actually it's not acceptable at all.
I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that.
