Just got to fnafflebrump caddwallame, all right?" Edie says, and no one pays attention. She learned at Lady Gravely's that nonsense which can be misheard is a very good way to lie without getting caught. People just insert whatever they think you must be doing, and - having lied to themselves on your behalf - are disinclined to check up on you.

Nick Harkaway

Tags: lying nonsense



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I unwrapped my love for her like one might unwrap leftovers. Gotta eat up the old stuff first, as a cannibal might say in a retirement home.


Dark Jar Tin Zoo

Tags: humor life age love food time death relationships absurd funny old-age leftovers nonsense retirement cannibalism cannibal retirement-home



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I love full on, like 65 mph in a handicapped parking spot.


Dark Jar Tin Zoo

Tags: humor life love relationships absurd funny nonsense car parking handicapped disabled



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Rest assured you make perfectly good nonsense.  I understand you one-hundred-percent not at all.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Tags: sarcasm confusion nonsense richelle richelle-goodrich unclear



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Natural rights, nonsense; natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense, elevated nonsense, nonsense going on stilts.

John Stuart Mill

Tags: nonsense



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No Blame: The most liberating and empowering day of my life was the day I freed myself from my own self-destructive nonsense.

Steve Maraboli

Tags: success empowering nonsense blame self-destructive liberating



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I keep hearing about a spiritual awakening, but I feel what we need instead is a human one. It would be wonderful and empowering to become free from the disillusionment and nonsense being sold to us from gurus for centuries.

Steve Maraboli

Tags: life humanity spirituality nonsense gurus



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When people get into their 30s plus "boyfriend" sounds weird...if you really think about it. Instead, I think we should universally start using the term "manfriend" or "snookie bookie cuddles pie".

Michelle M. Pillow

Tags: humor relationships comedy nonsense comedy-humor thirties boyfriend manfriend



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...you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.

Dianna Hardy

Tags: philosophy human-nature logic denial rational nonsense making-sense-of-the-world human-behaviour rationalise rationalize



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rather babble away and at least partially express something difficult than reproduce impeccable clichés

Thomas Mann

Tags: sense nonsense clichés cliché castorp



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