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I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them. (Quote by - Mike Tyson)

It's annoying when people do that so-called comedians impression of me when it's stupid nonsense. (Quote by - Craig David)

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. (Quote by - Anne Sullivan)

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash. (Quote by - Anthony Hopkins)

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. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso )

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. (Quote by - Northrop Frye)

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind. (Quote by - Ted Nelson)

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. (Quote by - Gregory Bateson)

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know. (Quote by - Josef Albers)

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! (Quote by - Arthur Hertzberg)

It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change. (Quote by - Angela Merkel)

I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics. (Quote by - Rick Wright)

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city. (Quote by - George Mason)

Buddhas don't practice nonsense. (Quote by - Bodhidharma)

Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense. (Quote by - Earl Wilson)

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense. (Quote by - Richard Pryor)

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. (Quote by - Karel Capek)

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. (Quote by - Robert Frost)

No one is exempt from taking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly. (Quote by - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne)

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)

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. (Quote by - Al D'Amato)

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. (Quote by - John McGahern)

The game has changed. What's going on now is nonsense. You have guys complaining about not being paid. (Quote by - David Wells)

Nonsense and beauty have close connections. (Quote by - E. M. Forster)

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