Your explanation depresses me," I said. "Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple.
We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done by social development, in which education must play a part.
Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.
If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point.
I love people who have such passion for complete nonsense.
A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.
Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.
And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.
Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married.
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand. . . . . . But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate vocabulary, nonsense words are the best thing we've got. Ifactifice is one such word.
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.
Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade-a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that evolution generates no predictions, never exposes itself to test, and therefore stands as dogma rather than disprovable science. This claim is nonsense. We make and test risky predictions all the time; our success is not dogma, but a highly probable indication of evolution's basic truth.
The notion of the competitiveness of countries, on the model of the competitiveness of companies, is nonsense.
The nonsense that charms is close to sense.
Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense,'
Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey!