Utter Nonsense Quotes

#1. Consider the possibility that many of the things you hear and say are utter nonsense and meaningless repetitions of noise.

Bryant McGill

#2. For Tozer, entertainment was simply the Church synchronizing with the world and succumbing to it. It was utter nonsense to him that the Church wanted to bring itself "up to speed" with the world around it. A worldly church was, in Tozer's thinking, an oxymoron and completely anathema.

A.W. Tozer

#3. he wrote of these things and utter nonsense in the same breath, and this made me dismiss the book. Until I finished it. You have to see all things at once, as on Tralfamadore. I read it again. I caught a glimpse of some other dimension.

Hugh Howey

#4. Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.

Catharine MacKinnon

#5. I am sure you have heard that appearance doesn't matter and that it's what's on the inside that counts. Well that of course is utter nonsense, because if no one cared about what's on the outside no one would take a bath or comb their hair and the world would be a lot smellier than it already is!

Lemony Snicket

#6. Some say that the anticipation of a thing is better than the thing itself. In
my view, this is utter nonsense. Any fool can imagine a prize. I desire the
tangible.

Brian Herbert

#7. Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.

Douglas Adams

#8. 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

#9. The stupidest word Jason could have imagined. Utter nonsense. Supposedly it would unmake Maldor. He repeated the odd syllables in his mind, varying the inflection. If it failed, he could always try supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

Brandon Mull

#10. I've always found that a rather unfortunate quirk in our species. Everyone pants towards orgasm without pausing to realise that its merely a biological trap designed for the purpose of reproduction. What utter nonsense.

Elizabeth George

#11. The idea that full employment without property ownership will solve the world's problems is utter nonsense. The Keynesian concept that the function of capital is merely to amplify labor, not independently produce wealth is simply blindness.

Louis O. Kelso

#12. My capacity as a monk was to passionately believe utter nonsense, and when you're an actor you have to do the same thing. Also, Christianity used to have a lot to do with self-loathing and an acceptance of criticism and things like that which is terribly important for actors.

Tom Baker

#13. If you have ever had a miserable experience, then you have probably had it said to you that you would feel better in the morning. This, of course, is utter nonsense, because a miserable experience remains a miserable experience even on the loveliest of morning.

Lemony Snicket

#14. People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That's utter nonsense.

Bernard Marcus

#15. If I finally do catch you and put my mouth to yours you will taste that summer.

Sina Queyras

#16. Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

Aldous Huxley

#17. I visualize the day that tridents and pentagrams are thrust into the sky from church roofs instead of crosses.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#18. Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love.

Sara Sheridan

#19. Wilbur brought the vision and Rodney executed it.

Gerard Butler

#20. War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.

John Dos Passos

#21. You shall not pass!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#22. The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Epictetus

#23. I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

Elia Kazan

#24. To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#25. Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained within boundaries.

Bell Hooks

#26. Nothing scares me, because I used to think I was indestructible. Now I know I'm indestructible, not to mention my spine is indestructible. It's all titanium.

Jason Priestley

#27. We found that CAS9 has the ability to make a double-stranded break in DNA at sites that are programmed by a small RNA molecule. What was so important was that we could really show how the CAS9 protein worked.

Jennifer Doudna

#28. God did not separate humanity from the environment in which they were created

Sunday Adelaja

#29. I kissed her. I kissed her so that she could feely regret, my desire to do right, the way that she had a piece of me now and I wasn't letting go. I kissed her because I had to and kissing her made me feel better.

Jay Crownover

#30. We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.

Jon Ronson

#31. The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'.

Jenny Agutter