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  • When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.

    Science   Talking   Law  
    Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.121, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

    Men   Talking   Privilege  
    "Crime and Punishment". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866.
  • Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are full of hate. Go to the preachers and they will say, "Try to love." They are talking nonsense because how can a person who is full of hate try to love? If he tries to love, this love will come out of hatred; it will be poisoned already, poisoned from the very source. And this is what the misery of all preachers is.

    Love   Hate   Talking  
  • Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God.

  • It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

    Mother   Baby   Tired  
  • Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I'm not a showbiz person. I just enjoy talking nonsense on the radio. I'm not bothered about going to clubs or the paparazzi, I genuinely prefer my neighbours. Spending time with my family and watching Coronation Street are what I love best. People are just people, aren't they?

    The MIRROR Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.
  • Valkyrie dialed Skulduggery's number and he picked up. 'Hey,' she said, 'It's me.' Skulduggery paused. 'No it's not. If it were me, then I'd be talking to myself, and I don't do that any more. I certainly don't RING myself. That's one of the first signs of madness, and if it's not, it should be.' She sighed. 'Are you finished talking nonsense?' 'I haven't talked nonsense all morning. I miss it.

  • I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

    Men   Talking   America  
  • A lot of lies and misinformation has been put about by eco nuts on the back of a report by an idiot economist [Sir Nicholas Stern]. Environmental head bangers are talking nonsense when they claim that aviation is the fastest-growing source of carbon emissions. Coal-fired and oil-fired power stations are the biggest contributor of carbon but I have yet to hear any fearless eco warriors advocating nuclear power as they drive around in their SUVs to their next protest meeting.

    Lying   Warrior   Talking  
    "Labour targets airlines over carbon emissions" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2007.
  • Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?

    Men   Able   Nonsense  
  • Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

  • American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

  • Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.

    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.

    "The Works of Charles Lamb".
  • Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

    "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 56e), 1980.
  • Leaders of the world, my message to you is simple: to achieve universal peace and understanding on this planet you have only to speak plainly, even though you may look foolish. This is a thousand times better than looking good and talking nonsense.

    Simple   Talking   Leader  
  • I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

    Mother   Tired   Boys  
  • Employees hate meetings because they reveal that self-promotion, sycophancy, dissimulation and constantly talking nonsense in a loud confident voice are more impressive than merely being good at the job - and it is depressing to lack these skills but even more depressing to discover one's self using them.

    Depressing   Jobs   Hate  
  • In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

    Order   Talking   Gossip  
    Voltaire (1959). “Candide”
  • I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating, nor was it wholly nonsense for Kepler to exult that he was thinking God's thoughts after him. The world for me is a necessary system, and in the degree to which the thinker can surrender his thought to that system and follow it, he is in a sense participating in that which is timeless or eternal.

  • It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.

    1911 Introduction to Mathematics.
  • Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

    George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.153, Courier Corporation
  • Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

  • The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't be said in black and white... Those who say that colour will eventually replace black and white are talking nonsense. The two do not compete with each other. They are different means to different ends.

  • We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is the one sure way of avoiding talking nonsense.

    Hermann Bondi (1980). “Relativity and Common Sense: A New Approach to Einstein”, p.65, Courier Corporation
  • Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk.

    Thinking   Talking   Two  
    Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.315, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
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