Quotes About Saying Nonsense

#1. They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

Ted Nelson

#2. I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.

Gary Kemp

#3. When he talked politics, it was with me, or my sister, pointing a steady and patient finger at us, saying, "I don't care about left or right. It's all nonsense. All I ask of you is this: Be kind. Be decent. And don't be greedy.

Nickolas Butler

#4. Jon Anderson and I, we really liked a lot of classical music, and we wanted to get some orchestral arrangements going on 'Time And A Word.'

Chris Squire

#5. There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's utter nonsense ... You climbed the mountain because you were there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like.

Larry Ellison

#6. I am an atheist ... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense.

Andy Rooney

#7. There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.

Harold Bloom

#8. To assert, as some have, that illegal immigrants do not depress wages because they do the jobs Americans refuse is the kind of nonsense economists speak when they strain to be counterintuitive. It is similar to saying that cheap imports do not hold down prices.

Mark Helprin

#9. They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.

E.L. Konigsburg

#10. We'll never survive!"
"Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has.

William Goldman

#11. The important thing is not whatever nonsense the voices are saying, but what the voices are feeling.

John Green

#12. I'd like to be known for stepping up, and encouraging others to do the same.

Leigh Anne Tuohy

#13. You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.

Tom Rachman

#14. I mean, it's one thing saying you've got the best god, but sayin' it's the only real one is a bit of a cheek, in my opinion. I know where I can find at least two any day of the week. And they say everyone starts out bad and only gets good by believin' in Om, which is frankly damn nonsense.

Terry Pratchett

#15. I hate self-publishing; it's a real drag and it takes up a lot of space.

David Rees

#16. There's a saying, cited in popular song, that if you love someone you must set them free. Well, that's just nonsense. If you love someone, you bind them to you with heavy metal chains.

David Nicholls

#17. I'm a devotee of Stephen Sondheim. I think he's a genius.

Kenneth Branagh

#18. You want a man to come back to you; you don't go saying squalid nonsense.

S.A. David

#19. A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.

Anthony Hecht

#20. 'They eat their kind,' he said, 'Like men.'

Ursula K. Le Guin

#21. Since time immemorial wise people have been saying that all comparisons are odious. When we compare, we set up a winner-loser dynamic. If my crisis is greater than yours, then yours is belittled and insignificant. I say that's nonsense. Each crisis has its own power, its own unique reality.

Tavis Smiley