#nonsense

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

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. ↗

— Karel Capek

#any #childhood #constitutes #glory #had

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#changed #consolation #crutch #evidence #harm

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#being #believed #changed #considered #history

I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics. ↗

— Rick Wright

#dressed #i #lyrics #moore #nonsense

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. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#charge #claim #creationist #critics #evolution

I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#create #euphoria #found #i #loaded

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense! ↗

— Arthur Hertzberg

#country #depths #enactment #gamble #going

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