Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

- Benjamin Disraeli

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

- Carl Jung

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

- C. S. Lewis

I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

- C. L. R. James

People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That's utter nonsense.

- Bernard Marcus

There are a lot of laws from Europe about employing people which are absolute nonsense.

- Ben Elliot

'Dreamers' was because I really wanted to go back after I heard so much nonsense about '68. I wanted to go back to what for me was '68, when young people thought that they could change the world.

- Bernardo Bertolucci

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

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

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

- Bodhidharma

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 want less of the annoying nonsense that interferes with your portfolios and more of the significant data that allow you to become a less distracted, more purposeful investor.

- Barry Ritholtz

One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.

- Barry Ritholtz

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

- Alfred Bester

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

No. 1, Halliburton. Certainly, if they've overcharged they should be whacked and whacked good, but the idea that the vice president somehow is involved in this, whether they got contracts because of him, that's nonsense.

- Al D'Amato

I don't like the Samba; it's nonsense. With a lot of these Latin dances I can't really understand what they're all about. I like the Rumba and the Paso Doble but the others I could take or leave.

- Anton du Beke

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

Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.

- Ann Coulter

It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.

- Angela Merkel