#nonsense

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see? ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#mad-hatter #nonsense #nothing

I can tie a cherry stem into a knot with my tongue. Now, if only I could do the same with my shoelaces, I wouldn’t have to banana pudding my way to success.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #cherry #knot #nonsense #ridiculous

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#before #fight #hitting #i #intimidate

The game has changed. What's going on now is nonsense. You have guys complaining about not being paid. ↗

— David Wells

#being #changed #complaining #game #going

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" He took his vorpal sword in hand; Long time the manxome foe he sought— So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. "And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" He chortled in his joy. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#lewis-carroll #nonsense #poetry #nonsense

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#dalai #dalai lama #lama #miracle #nonsense

It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis. ↗

— Arthur Machen

#direction #dreams #greater #inasmuch #interpretation

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#certain #documents #excess #far #insert

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

— Charles Lamb

#nonsense #friendship

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city. ↗

— George Mason

#city #etiquette #fashionable #grow #heartily