Top 100 Don't Make Sense Quotes
#1. When our worries and fears just don't make sense, it's possible we are trusting the part of the brain that doesn't make sense ... it just reacts.
Bill Crawford
#2. Time is a wind that keeps blowing in my face and mumbling words that don't make sense.
Shannon Hale
#3. That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers.
Kurt Vonnegut
#4. I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire's tax rate. For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit.
Warren Buffett
#5. Backstage, Willem is thinking about accidents again. And things that seemingly don't make sense, except they do. Like right out there in the fifth row. All of them, together. That makes sense.
Gayle Forman
#6. Sometimes the things that make sense in light of eternity don't make sense while we're still walking it out here on earth. Yet we will trust him; yet we will praise him.
Melanie Shankle
#7. I need to tell the things that are important but which don't make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would destroy symmetry or narrative pace. This is my personal belief about what it means to write nonfiction.
Akhil Sharma
#8. We're always on a tightrope. We're trying to put together people who don't make sense to be together, talking about issues that are sensitive and controversial. We're mixing dangerous chemicals on a nightly basis.
Bill Maher
#9. Haikus are easy
But sometimes don't make sense
Refrigerator
Rolf Nelson
#10. we think we can truly short-circuit the ramp by killing things that don't make sense fast and doubling down on the ones that do.
Eric Ries
#11. Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don't make sense. And that's not science. That's just taking notes.
Geoffrey West
#12. There are things that two people say in the middle of the night That don't make sense to a third at breakfast.
Melissa Bank
#13. Forgiveness is the nature of my art in general. It's expressing love and compassion, the kinds of things that don't make sense in any other context other than emotive expression.
Raymond Pettibon
#14. It don't make sense: either you a soldier from the start,
Or a actor with a record deal tryin' to play the part.
Xzibit
#15. Facebook is weird. They have all of these seemingly random rules that I'm sure make sense to them, but don't make sense to me or any people.
Billy Eichner
#16. Kittens and clowns don't make sense to me anymore.
Katie McGarry
#17. You're the most egotistical and the kindest man I know. And that doesn't make sense."
"Maybe the concepts don't make sense. Maybe they don't mean what people have been taught to think they mean.
Ayn Rand
#18. Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this kind of film. For me, those kinds of films are ridiculous. They don't make sense.
Jackie Chan
#19. My life don't make a lot of sense ... It don't make sense that I go around the country killing people. Period. It don't make sense doing that.
Tommy Lynn Sells
#20. That's what poetic speech is for
for the things that are true but don't make sense.
Joe Hill
#21. Mr False Pretence, you don't make sense
I just don't know you
But you make me cry, where's my kiss goodbye
I think I love you
Amy Winehouse
#22. Stuff happens. We get lost. We try to control what will happen. We give up. We do things that don't make sense. We search for things in the wrongest of ways. We lose our way, but sometimes, if we're really, really strong, we manage to find our way back.
Jessica Sorensen
#23. One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense.
Joan Didion
#24. I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me.
James Frey
#25. You don't have to understand everything. Some things don't make sense. Go with the flow. Move on.
Sue Fitzmaurice
#26. That is what madness is, isn't it? All the wheels fly off the bus and things don't make sense any more. Or rather, they do, but it's not a kind of sense anyone else can understand.
Audrey Niffenegger
#27. Please. I don't make sense with you and you don't make sense without me and you know it. we only ever worked together.
R.K. Lilley
#28. Normally, in a film with lots of twists and turns, half of them don't make sense; they're just there for their own sakes.
Domhnall Gleeson
#30. If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
Andrew Young
#31. At night my mind does not much care if what it thinks is here or there. It tells me stories, it invents and makes up things that don't make sense. I do not know why it does this stuff. The real world seems quite weird enough.
Shel Silverstein
#32. Humans don't make sense."
"If you're only now learning that," Kaladin said, "then you haven't been paying attention.
Brandon Sanderson
#33. Why you need a reason for everything? Reason is something people say to make sense of things that don't make sense.
Gregg Olsen
#34. You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories, but Christians say we have to believe there was a Christ, or the miracles don't make sense.
Joseph Campbell
#35. She was also wearing brown high-heeled boots, the kind that don't make sense.
Boots are for working, for walking through wet mud, for keeping feet from getting shredded by brokenglass and falling machine parts.Boots with spiked heels were just as practical as sandals with steel toes
Penny Reid
#37. No, we're definitely stuck to one another. You to me and me to you."
"Even though I don't make sense?"
Rick patted his back.
"Hey, you make sense. You make a lot of sense. Sometimes it's a sense I don't get, but that doesn't mean it's not sense.
Shukyou
#38. If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we'd have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are involved it sometimes becomes much more problematic because they're erratic. People do crazy things that don't make sense.
Sara Sheridan
#39. Sometimes my life just don't make sense at all. The mountains looks so big and my faith just seems so small.
Rich Mullins
#40. Invest in places that make sense so you can afford to live in places that don't make sense.
Jason Hartman
#41. Intuition eludes the grasp of linear thinking, with its exclusive emphasis on cause and effect that are close in time and space. The result is that most of our intuitions don't make sense - that is, they can't be explained in terms of linear logic. Very
Peter M. Senge
#42. People have a lot of different beliefs, and at the end of the day, we all have deeply held beliefs that probably don't make sense to anyone else.
Trey Parker
#43. But that age; remember that age? They're not the same. They don't put things together. That's why half of what they do looks full-on certifiable, to you or me or any sane adult. Things don't make sense, when you're that age; you don't make sense. You stop expecting to.
Tana French
#44. It's getting funnier because everybody's categories are disintegrating, and the cult of political correctness dictates that we never point out that other people don't make sense.
Terence McKenna
#45. When I say the things that don't make sense you answer me anyway. It's like having green in your shirt.
Mindy McGinnis
#47. It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum, doing something that a bums don't do? This don't make sense.
Ornette Coleman
#48. It doesn't pay to ignore warnings. Even when they don't make sense.
Debra Doyle
#49. I can confidently pass up opportunities that don't make sense because there'll be better ones on the horizon, even if I have to wait.
Julie Klausner
#50. I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.
Daphne Gottlieb
#51. Pictures that don't make sense are magic. they hold balls of light covered in millions of spells swirled into a cell.
Alexa Kitchen
#52. Sometimes things just don't make sense. Sometimes we never have answers to these questions.
Corinne Michaels
#53. Now I understand. When you love someone, you have to try things even if they don't make sense to anyone else.
Gennifer Choldenko
#54. I talk a lot in metaphors. I get my words out but sometimes they don't make sense.
David Boreanaz
#55. Everything had to be in order for you, everything had to make sense. I hope you've learned that some things don't make sense, no matter how hard you try to make sense of them.
Angela Benson
#56. I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them.
Denzel Washington
#59. This Love has whispered secrets in your ear that don't make sense to anybody else. You know who You are. You are the shining star.
Rumi
#60. We all play God every day. When a woman buys a new pair of expensive shoes, she could have spent that same money feeding someone who was starving. In a sense, those shoes mean more to her than a life. We all kill to make our lives more comfortable. We don't put it in those terms. But we do.
Harlan Coben
#61. And maybe I was wasting time trying to make sense of things: sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen.
Marian Keyes
#62. Liberals want Conservatives to shut up. Conservatives want Liberals to keep talking. Because our arguments make sense and theirs don't
Bill Whittle
#63. That's something that seems to happen when I'm writing, where maybe things that don't necessarily make a lot of logical sense are put together, and yet we struggle to make sense of these things somehow. I'm not quite sure why that is; it's something about human nature, I guess.
Kurt Wagner
#64. My mom was there to answer the unanswerable, to make sense of the fault in our life - and we got through that somehow; we came out on the other side. Now I'm 0 for 2 and I don't get any more pitches to swing at.
Daisy Whitney
#65. Trust, a sense of humor, and don't let the sun go down on an argument without trying to make it up. That's all I know about good marriage. I've been married a long time - it seems to be working.
Stephen King
#66. Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
It matters that you don't just give up.
Stephen Hawking
#67. The day you realize you don't have to make sense to anyone is the day you start to make sense to you.
Greg Behrendt
#68. It didn't make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what don't deserve them, while letting some of the biggest jackasses and scoundrels alive waltz their way through long, untroubled existences.
Caleb Carr
#69. I went through a phase of eating dinner in the shower because I thought, 'Why don't we do that?' Then I realised, 'Because it doesn't make any sense.' It doesn't save any time, and you can't really get into a steak and baked potato when there's water pouring on you.
Brie Larson
#70. I asked if you was pleased.'
'Course I'm pleased! You think I'd be mad if I wasn't pleased?'
'You don't make a lick of sense,' he says, but he is smiling now and he takes a step closer to me.
Erin Lindsay McCabe
#71. I don't expect life to make sense," he said after a few moments, "but it could certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls.
Scott Lynch
#72. Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
Viggo Mortensen
#73. It's meant to be seen rolling so it should be big and readable. Wildstyles on trains didn't make much sense to me when I first started and they still don't today.
Ichabod
#74. I think the dilemma exists because art, among all the other tidy categories, most closely resembles what it is like to be human. To be alive. It is our nature to be imperfect. To have uncategorized feelings and emotions. To make or do things that don't sometimes necessarily make sense.
Brene Brown
#75. A lot of times, the inspiration for a novel is a messy bird's nest of shiny things. Little things that don't make a whole lot of sense or that, no matter how hard you look, cannot be found directly in the finished book.
Molly O'Keefe
#76. Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming. ?Bet you the rules and I hit the ground running Didn't make sense not to live for fun. Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb.
Greg Camp
#77. 'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.
Michael Craig-Martin
#78. You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.
Tom Wilkinson
#79. My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.
Jon Bon Jovi
#80. I don't think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.
Benjamin Carson
#81. There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.
Jan Karon
#82. Don't thank me, either of you. I only brought the both of you along so that you could ask all the smart questions and make sense of what they show us.
G. Norman Lippert
#83. Comedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don't. You have to have a good sense of humour to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch.
Deepika Padukone
#84. I can't think offhand of any American poets who have Mandelstam's urgency, but it's a different country and a different time, and I don't think it would make much sense to say that this is something that's "missing" from contemporary American poetry.
Christian Wiman
#85. In terms of sex between same-sex partners, the objection that "the parts don't fit" doesn't make sense on even the most logical level. If the parts didn't work together, frankly, people wouldn't be putting them together.
Kathy Baldock
#86. We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don't care if they make sense or nonsense.
Norton Juster
#87. Never ignore the feelings that don't seem to make sense.
Susan Mallery
#88. I always have more fun when I stay in hostels - you just meet so many more people. A hotel makes sense when you're doing work things, but travelling, you don't really get a feel for a place if you're in a hotel. I find it seems to make it all feel like everywhere else.
Margot Robbie
#89. There are things in my life that are hard to reconcile, like divorce. Sometimes it is very difficult to make sense of how it could possibly happen. Laying blame is so easy. I don't have time for hate or negativity in my life. There's no room for it.
Reese Witherspoon
#90. The term "forgive and forget" doesn't make sense to me. Forgiving does allow us to stop dwelling on an issue, which isn't always healthy. But if we forget, we don't learn from our mistakes.
Meg Cabot
#91. And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.
Talib Kweli
#92. The people who run the major banks have MBAs and wear suits. And when those people in suits come to the homes of people who don't have a high school diploma, don't even speak English, and offer them a home at zero percent down, that doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense.
Ramin Bahrani
#93. I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me. And I still write on a typewriter. It's not all in ether. It's on pages. I sequence them in a way that tends to make sense. Then I write what's missing, and that's my first draft.
Richard Greenberg
#94. I don't think that you should tell me that you love me wildly, passionately, devotedly, hopelessly. Hopelessly doesn't seem to make much sense, does it?
Oscar Wilde
#95. I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history.
Billy Bragg
#96. Don't look so stiff and concerned, bucko. Word from the wise, sometimes there's no better place to hide than in the open, and no better way to disappear than to stand out."
"That doesn't make any sense."
"Sure it does. Hogan wrote it years and years ago - you do know who Hogan is right?
Gillian Bronte Adams
#97. If you don't understand the past, the future won't make much sense either.
DJ Spooky
#98. Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me.
Banana Yoshimoto
#99. When I first came in, I partied and had a good time. I used to spend $500,000 on chains that don't make no sense. Then I started having babies. I don't do the bull**** no more.
Shaquille O'Neal
#100. Live in the moment, just do it - those are phrases thrown around by people who don't know what they mean. Just do it - it's idiotic. You could slap that slogan on a picture of Hitler and it would make as much sense. He did it, all right.
Gregory Galloway
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