#nonsense

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#easily #finds #god #i #mortal

He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense. ↗

— John McCarthy

#doomed #nonsense #refuses #talk #who

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese. ↗

— John McGahern

#anything #being #chinese #else #i

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#bourgeoisie #common #common people #common sense #exists

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#coup #final #finish #give #grace

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#any #fiber #going #hurt #i

You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense. ↗

— John C. Reilly

#back #bigger #day #going #hollywood

Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#because #blinds #burn #fact #interesting

People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#i think #nonsense #people #people say #say

I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else. ↗

— Marat Safin

#another #back #different #else #espn