Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.

People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

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.

That was the first time ever in history that anybody got Special Guest Star. I started that whole nonsense.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.