#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 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

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

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

— Charles Lamb

#her #nonsense #privilege #respected #talk

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#easily #finds #god #i #mortal

Bureaucratic nonsense at airports drives me crazy. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#crazy #drives #me #nonsense