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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
Gelett Burgess
Life
Nonsense
Interest
Requires
Serious
Appreciate
When in doubt, make no sense. No sense is good. And nonsense is good.
Genesis P-Orridge
Good
Sense
Doubt
No Sense
Make
Nonsense
When In Doubt
As children know, there's lots of fun in nonsense. We never stop benefiting from staying flexible, open and responsive, even in the midst of confusion.
Joanna Scott
Confusion
Benefiting
Responsive
Staying
Never
Open
Never Stop
Know
Nonsense
Lots
Stop
Children
Midst
Flexible
Fun
Even
I love boating - not flash, 'noisy go fast' nonsense, but the general relaxation of it. My wife and I love to get in our little Wellcraft and go as far out to sea as we can, hopefully beyond land. That is the best thing you can ever do. It clears your psyche.
John Lydon
Love
Best
You
Wife
Our
Relaxation
Out
Hopefully
General
Clears
Noisy
Beyond
Nonsense
Go
Get
Psyche
Flash
Little
Land
Far
Your
Sea
Ever
Fast
Thing
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Oliver Goldsmith
Good
Learning
Genius
Better
Gives
Puzzle
Maintain
Discerning
Nonsense
Brain
Liquor
Grammar
You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense.
Robert Smith
You
People
Value
Other
Otherwise
Consider
Price
Allow
Put
Nonsense
Any
Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.
Alfred Bester
Science
Frankly
Silly
Most
Science Fiction
Nonsense
Quite
Quite Frankly
Fiction
At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.
Amanda Donohoe
You
Men
Skin
More
Put
Comfortable
Nonsense
Up
Confident
Your
If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
Andrew Young
You
Sense
Living
Eloquently
Talk
Make
Learn
Nonsense
Preacher
Even
The cliche that comics always use is that whatever is happening in the news is 'the gift that keeps on giving.' I always thought that was a bunch of nonsense.
Andy Kindler
News
Gift
Thought
Giving
Whatever
Cliche
Always
Nonsense
Comics
Bunch
Happening
Use
Keeps
It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.
Angela Merkel
Change
Say
Unable
Nonsense
Germans
If I can, in any way, give people the courage to say, 'Actually, no, the nonsense stops right here,' then I want to be a part of doing that. Especially if that means that our folks will be more free.
Angela Rye
Courage
People
Will
Free
Our
Way
Say
Folks
Give
More
Part
Nonsense
Doing
Any
Stops
Want
Then
Means
Actually
Right
Here
Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.
Ann Coulter
Cute
Liberals
Kind
Life-Threatening
Instinctive
Idiocy
Nonsense
Wartime
I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be extremely goal oriented and to not let the noise and the nonsense interfere with your mission - what you really feel you want to do with your career and your life.
Anne Sweeney
Life
Work
You
Noise
Work Hard
Focus
Power
Leader
Think
Extremely
Ability
Feel
Mission
Qualities
Female
Nonsense
Male
Goal
Want
Really
Interfere
Your
Hard
Oriented
Career
A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
Anthony Hecht
Saying
Best
Yourself
First
Stage
Sense
Finally
Penetrate
Lies
Mystery
Through
Had
Over
Like
Return
Pass
Till
Nonsense
Lines
Lot
Escaped
Trying
Done
Again
Notice
Full
Fun
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
Rest
No Interest
Shakespeare
Nonsense
Get
Just
Famous
Wanted
Hogwash
Interest
British
When you come from within the industry, you are better prepared for the industry. For example, you see your family deal with the nonsense that is written in the papers, or the highs and lows of a hit and a flop.
Arjun Kapoor
Family
You
Better
Example
Papers
See
Written
Highs
Come
For Example
Industry
Within
Deal
Nonsense
Hit
Your
Lows
Prepared
Flop
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
Poverty
Country
Revolution
Assured
Our
Security
Moral
Would
Never
Reach
Enactment
Nonsense
Were
Very
Wall
Wall Street
Going
Social
Roosevelt
Depths
Gamble
Social Security
Now
Street
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
Dreams
Interpretation
Direction
True
Sure
Greater
Said
Nonsense
Method
Opposite
Opposite Direction
Any
May
Moves
Inasmuch
Much
Means
Many
There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.
Arthur Scargill
Strength
Feeling
Determined
Clearly
Nonsense
Size
Union
In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot of nonsense comes with it into your life.
Athol Fugard
Life
Success
You
Problems
South Africa
Month
Never
New
Nonsense
South
Lot
York
New York
Africa
Happen
Flavor
Your
Presented
Presents
In 1993, 89 of the 'Fortune' top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to their employees. The philosophy behind personality tests is that they don't want you to be in the wrong kind of job. The tests have been completely exposed as nonsense.
Barbara Ehrenreich
You
Personality
Job
Employees
Philosophy
Top
Kind
Wrong
Wrong Kind
Nonsense
Test
Were
Been
Tests
Behind
Want
Fortune
Companies
Exposed
One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
Barry Ritholtz
Financial
Accountability
Press
Penalty
One Thing
About
Detest
Most
Sort
Without
Said
Nonsense
Lack
Thing
In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.
Ben Horowitz
Life
You
Run
Born
Nonsense
Confrontation
CEO
CEOs
Level
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Benjamin Disraeli
Clever
Nine-Tenths
Books
Nonsense
Existing
There's this idea supposedly that we preachers are supposed to walk about with sandals and ride bicycles. That's nonsense.
Benny Hinn
Ride
Walk
About
Idea
Supposed
Supposedly
Nonsense
Preachers
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