That Makes About As Much Sense As Quotes

#1. I fail to see how somebody can hate me for 'what I do' and what I am without actually hating me as a person. That makes about as much sense as throwing the baby out with the bathwater - or gay man out the church door with his homosexuality.

Christina Engela

#2. That makes about as much sense as lopping off your foot to avoid twisting an ankle.

Eileen Wilks

#3. That's the funny thing about mazes: what's baffling on the ground begins to makes sense when you can begin to rise above it, the better to understand your history and fix yourself. (p. 717)

Wally Lamb

#4. The universe is against us, which makes sense. So we get another McFlurry and talk about how fat we are for a while.

Mona Awad

#5. Why did you attack some girl's boots?"
J.Lo looked incredulous. "She is still mad about this?" he huffed. "I TOLD her-I THOUGHT they were ANKLEwolves."
"Okay, whatever. I-"
"Why elsenow would a person wear fur with shortpants? It makes no sense!

Adam Rex

#6. In short: Write the way people think. Nike knew what it was doing when it coined the slogan "Just do it." Grammatically, this phrase makes no sense. Your high-school English teacher would scold the copywriter for not being clear about the antecedent for "it.

Gary Dahl

#7. Apples to oranges, the act of comparing your life to another's is more like comparing an elephant to an apple, it makes no sense to compare someone's life that you have no knowledge about to that of your own, of which in all earnest is not something that you completely understand yourself.

Forrest Curran

#8. Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much sense as forcing modern residents of England to wear laurels and togas.

Steven Pinker

#9. There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.

Jonathan Galassi

#10. I've been a politician and so I'm sometimes cynical about what politicians won't do. When I hear a politician say something that makes no sense whatsoever, I think there's one of two things there: There's money or the promise of money.

Allan Boesak

#11. Believing that all women should want to be mothers makes about as much sense as believing that all men should want to be engineers.

Harriet Lerner

#12. For my children, it makes sense to talk about modernizing Social Security, letting them create stronger personal accounts, letting them get a higher rate of return over the long run.

John Sununu

#13. We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it - that makes no sense. What my yia yia could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#14. It makes no sense to talk about people's rights without also talking about responsibilities. The Last Lecture

Randy Pausch

#15. Thinking and prayer are much the same thing anyway, when you stop to think about it
if that makes any sense. Prayer goes up and thought comes down
or so it seems. As far as I can tell, that's the only difference.

Alan Bradley

#16. I am shamelessly biased about the people in my life, and it makes sense to me that other people are the same.

Akhil Sharma

#17. But now I have something that blows that feeling out of the water. Every time I need a hit of joy, I think about you. You are my solace, Kate. Just knowing that you are in this world, everything makes sense. p. 275 Until I Die (ARC)

Amy Plum