#nonsense

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#capable #music #nonsense #nothing #set

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know. ↗

— Josef Albers

#also #builders #father #know #nonsense

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

#actor #also #believe #capacity #christianity

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#change #claim #does #future #history

A little nonsense now and then, Is cherished by the wisest men. ↗

— John August

#wisdom #men

I just realized my lips are inside out. They should be turned inwards, because I spend most of my time talking to myself. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#communication #inside-out #introvert #lips #lunatic

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#any #anything #bad #bad men #conventional

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole. ↗

— Adam Duritz

#down #echoes #hear #hole #idiot

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#facing #global #global warming #harm #idea

I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense. ↗

— Jim Bolger

#away #ban #dominant #fascinating #from time to time