Top 1200 Nothing Makes Sense Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

You don’t have to look like an old fuddy-duddy, but I believe it was Chanel who said, ‘Nothing makes a woman look so old as trying desperately hard to look young’. I think you can be attractive at any age. I think trying to look like a spring chicken when you’re not makes you look ridiculous.

"Fun to drive" is a pleasant illusion in most places robustly inhabited where "safe to drive" makes much more sense.

There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.

It's fun! Just fun...I don't think of it as a cabaret act per se, I call it more of a gig, if that makes any sense

When I'm hitting, I'd play for nothing. When I'm not, any kind of money I receive makes me feel as if I'm stealing.

But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.

To this day, nothing makes me happier than finding a TV show I really love.

Being a grandmother is one of the least strange things in my life. It makes more sense than a lot of things... like photo shoots!

I don't like science because I don't think it makes sense to put a definition on everything. It's a lot more exciting to think of things as mysterious.

The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.

Theres nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel change, grow or live.

I work a lot with sounds based on stream of consciousness. I like the way it sounds, then I turn it into something that makes more sense.

What I like about the Bible is that it doesn't make sense, which makes it more like truth than anything else I've ever read.

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

Richard wrote a mental diary in his head. Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had a job, a fiance, a home, and a life that made sense. (Well, as much as an life makes sense). Then I found an injured girl bleeding on the pavement and I tried to be Good Samaritan. Now I've got no fiance, no home, no job, and I'm walking around a couple of hundred feet under the streets of London with the projected life expectancy of a suicidal fruit fly.

Any artist, when he goes in to record, should have the feeling that any song he records can be a hit. This may sound egotistical, but it makes sense.

But in fact it makes a lot of sense to have a Blue Lives Matter movement because officers are putting their lives on the line every day.

If a man we don't know phones us up one day and talks a little, makes no suggestions, says nothing special, but nevertheless pays us the kind of attention we rarely receive, we're quite capable of going to bed with him that night, feeling relatively in love. That's what we women are like, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's the nature of the female to open herself to love easily.

Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. And therefore a right understanding of death makes mortality enjoyable, not because it adds to an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality.

Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes a certain (albeit seedy) sense.

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

I knew nothing but love and devotion when I was growing up. Trust me, it makes everything easier.

A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.

I think that's what makes a successful marriage: a mindful sense of self and the ability to make clear choices to stay together or choices not to.

Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them.

I've talked to ghosts once. For me, it makes sense for them to be real because of physics. In physics, you can't destroy energy; it can only be conserved.

I'm not going to go fight the best guys in the world without getting championship fights or championship money; it makes no sense.

Directing action scenes is really just pure visual storytelling that just makes sense to me pretty intuitively.

We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily... But although the symmetries are hidden from us, we can sense that they are latent in nature, governing everything about us. That's the most exciting idea I know: that nature is much simpler than it looks. Nothing makes me more hopeful that our generation of human beings may actually hold the key to the universe in our hands - that perhaps in our lifetimes we may be able to tell why all of what we see in this immense universe of galaxies and particles is logically inevitable.

Like a lot of freelance cartoonists, when any opportunity like that comes along, I have a hard time saying no, whether it makes sense or not.

The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.

Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request.

Pain makes you stronger. Fear makes you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser.

Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether he is being generous to others or to himself because compassion is enviromental generosity, without direction, without " for me" and without " for them". It is filled with joy, spontaneously existing joy, constant joy in the sense of trust, in the sense that joy contains tremendous wealth, richness.

If I take up something, then it's only because I love it so. It makes no sense to leave it just because I got a better offer.

We're designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping. There's nothing to kill anymore, there's nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, nothing to explore. In that societal emasculation this everyman is created.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Women taking care of children . . . it makes sense to pay them for that work . . . they should be paid for it, but that requires tax payments. And the same is true about protection of the environment.

I have a dream that Africa should have one bloc - north to south - we could trade freely, people can move freely and that makes business sense.

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.

There's nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good.

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.

I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.

It only makes sense to have the people managing hundreds of millions of acres of land located near that land and accessible to those communities.

Please, Kate. Suspend your dislike of me for a few moments and listen to what I have to say. It makes sense." "I don't dislike you. It's an oversimplification.

The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others.

Sometimes I find myself sitting in one spot for hours, staring at nothing, thinking of nothing, feeling nothing, and most disturbingly, caring about nothing.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.

I can only go places because I know that I can go away from them, if that makes sense. I like the gypsy lifestyle that filming affords.

What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying.

Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.

It's unwise to presume on the future... It makes good sense to plan for tomorrow today, but there's a problem with thinking we can always do later the good we can do now.

For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.

The category of first sentence makes sense only if it is looking forward to the development of thematic concerns it perhaps only dimly foreshadows.