#nonsense

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

— Anthony Hopkins

#famous #get #hogwash #i #interest

All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense. ↗

— M. F. Husain

#inspiration #moment #nonsense #talk

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#born #certain #charismatic #dangerous #either

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#home #nonsense #others #philosophies #ride

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping. ↗

— Benjamin Britten

#composer #having #idea #night #nighttime

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#clever #existing #nine-tenths #nonsense

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! ↗

— Albert Einstein

#goes #hate #heroism #how #i

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. ↗

— Robert Frost

#forgive #forgive me #give me #i #me

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#beauty #because #dangerous #ego #goodness

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#better #better thing #far #firm #nonsense