#nonsense

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping. ↗

— Benjamin Britten

#composer #having #idea #night #nighttime

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! ↗

— Albert Einstein

#goes #hate #heroism #how #i

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#better #better thing #far #firm #nonsense

A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

#down #even #himself #make #man

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

Miss Rice talks very tough. We have gotten used to this nonsense. Miss Rice is a bit emotional about this, and we predicted that she would have a more emotional approach to this. ↗

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#approach #bit #emotional #gotten #miss

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? ↗

— Jean Kerr

#adorable #beauty #being #deep #enough

To assume that any couple goes without arguing is just nonsense. ↗

— Seal

#arguing #assume #couple #goes #just

It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#each #fixed #nonsense #particular #peculiarities

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. ↗