nonsense

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63b72a9	If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?	mad-hatter nonsense	Lewis Carroll
bd99b2f	"Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more." "You mean you can't take ," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take than nothing." "Nobody asked opinion," said Alice."	less more nonsense tea	Lewis Carroll
cd41a88	Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.	nonsense prose verse	Lewis Carroll
1300c36	"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" He took his vorpal sword in hand; Long time the manxome foe he sought-- So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. "And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" He chortled in his joy. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;	lewis-carroll nonsense poetry	Lewis Carroll
12150a7	Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?	bathtub fantasy fiction hearing kids nonsense octopus silly sound	Norton Juster
abb9f32	there's no clarity. there was never meant to be clarity.	bukowski clarity death life loneliness lonely love nonsense poem poetry	Charles Bukowski
f9519cd	"That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them."	nonsense	L.M. Montgomery
9b3c3dc	Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.	nonsense silly	Libba Bray
e3f4b15	Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.	humor nonsense	Umberto Eco
f2ca487	At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.	counterintuitive ideas nonsense open-minded open-mindedness science scrutiny skeptical skepticism truth	Carl Sagan
3a3a14c	NONE OF THIS NONSENSE, PLEASE	nonsense	Patricia C. Wrede
90ae50d	"The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!"	alice-through-the-looking-glass lewis-carrol nonsense red-queen sensible	Lewis Carroll
bdcaf69	Otulissa swelled up to twice her normal size. 'Well, SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!	insult nonsense otulissa	Kathryn Lasky
9383d45	She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.	common-sense fashion nonsense victorian-era	Jeannette Walls
79dea2e	But Noodynaady's actual ingrate tootle is of come into the garner mauve and thy nice are stores of morning and buy me a bunch of iodines.	nonsense	James Joyce
c875306	You alarm me!' said the King. 'I feel faint--Give me a ham sandwich!' On which the Messenger, to Alice's great amusement, opened a bag that hung round his neck, and handed a sandwich to the King, who devoured it greedily. 'Another sandwich!' said the King. 'There's nothing but hay left now,' the Messenger said, peeping into the bag. 'Hay, then,' the King murmured in a faint whisper. Alice was glad to see that it revived him a good deal. 'There's nothing like eating hay when you're faint,' he remarked to her, as he munched away. 'I should think throwing cold water over you would be better,' Alice suggested: 'or some .' 'I didn't say there was nothing ,' the King replied. 'I said there was nothing it.' Which Alice did not venture to deny.	faint hay like nonsense sandwich	Lewis Carroll
409372a	"...indeed, with the Radletts, you never could tell. Why, for instance, would Victoria bellow like a bull and half kill Jassy whenever Jassy said, in a certain tone of voice, pointing her finger with a certain look, "Fancy?" I think they hardly knew why, themselves."	humor nonsense	Nancy Mitford
a7bbb02	When I was young, most teachers of philosophy in British and American universities were Hegelians, so that, until I read Hegel, I supposed there must be some truth to his system; I was cured, however, by discovering that everything he said on the philosophy of mathematics was plain nonsense.	nonsense philosophy-of-mathematics	Bertrand Russell
5839b0b	Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense is part of the huge fund of unreason on which the plans and schemes of optimists draw for their vitality. Nonsense confiscates meaning. It thereby puts truth and falsehood, reason and unreason, light and darkness on an equal footing. It is a blow cast in defence of intellectual freedom, as the optimists construe it, namely the freedom to believe anything at all, provided you feel better for it.	believe darkness debate equal falsehood feel feeling freedom heart light meaning nonsense optimism optimists plan plans public reason scheme schemes truth unreason vitality	Roger Scruton
47f34b0	BLARGLE SLORG NOTH HARGHLE FTHAGN! You know. The usual.	funny nonsense usual	Jim Butcher
2c4e141	The crumbs blow free down the pointless sea To the beat of a cakey heart And the sensitive steel of the knife can feel That love is a race apart In the speed of the lingering light are blown The crumbs to the hake above, And the tropical air vibrates to the drone Of a cake in the throes of love.	nonsense	Mervyn Peake
e1a225e	Le stelle in cielo Non conoscono l'ira Bla, bla, bla, fine	nonsense palahniuk quotes stelle	Chuck Palahniuk
fe38bb7	Apple Computers is a famous example: it was founded by (mostly Republican) computer engineers who broke from IBM in Silicon Valley in the 198os, forming little democratic circles of twenty to forty people with their laptops in each other's garages.	nonsense	David Graeber
c64da67	"I asked, "When the Rebellions were at its peak doing nonsense, everyone was trying to keep away from the area, yet you were going in, why were you going into that area? Supt. Strachan answered quite frankly, Because I was not afraid. I felt like they are my people, they are my color. I don't know of anyone born after me that I should be afraid of, that was how I felt. I knew I could've walk through Strachan's Corner, sit down and felt at home, and their parents also accepted me. I came to the conclusion; these kids just need someone to show them some attention. They just wanted to belong, that was what a lot of them were looking for. So I said to myself, if I could assist them I would, and that was what I did. Supt. Allerdyce Strachan, the first female officer to rise to the rank of superintendent on the Royal Bahamas Police Force."	at-risk-communities at-risk-youth attention caring-cops caring-person clubs community-policing crime-prevention doing-good feeling-at-home feeling-wanted gang-intervention gang-members good-cops helping-people law-enforcement love-in-action love-of-country my-color my-kind my-people no-child-left-behind nonsense not-afraid not-giving-up parents-acceptance police-intervention police-outreach police-programs police-relations police-superintendent reaching-gang-members rebellion-raiders sense-of-belonging showing-love touching-lives wanting-to-belong woman-police youth youth-programs	Drexel Deal
f256413	Oh, Lor' bless ou , mum,' Azazel answered quickly, 'I am laden with all sorts of gimcracks and gaudy gewgaws, fripperies, filigrees, and fooleries, not to mention frivolities, fancies, and fiddledeedees. I have all kinds of iridescent idiocies, and any number of oddities, ordinary or obsolescent, as well as a fair supply of spangled sillinesses, though I may as well warn you, they're taking those off the market, and I won't be able to get you no spare parts nor replacements, ayup, I also carry, of course, a stock of the commoner baubles and jinglements for those whose tastes lies there. Also gum for the children, those as have them.	gimcracks nonsense oddities peddler sale	Peter S. Beagle

63b72a9

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?

mad-hatter nonsense

Lewis Carroll

bd99b2f

"Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more." "You mean you can't take ," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take than nothing." "Nobody asked opinion," said Alice."

less more nonsense tea

Lewis Carroll

cd41a88

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

nonsense prose verse

Lewis Carroll

1300c36

"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" He took his vorpal sword in hand; Long time the manxome foe he sought-- So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. "And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" He chortled in his joy. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

lewis-carroll nonsense poetry

Lewis Carroll

12150a7

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

bathtub fantasy fiction hearing kids nonsense octopus silly sound

Norton Juster

abb9f32

there's no clarity. there was never meant to be clarity.

bukowski clarity death life loneliness lonely love nonsense poem poetry

Charles Bukowski

f9519cd

"That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them."

nonsense

L.M. Montgomery

9b3c3dc

Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.

nonsense silly

Libba Bray

e3f4b15

Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.

humor nonsense

Umberto Eco

f2ca487

At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.

counterintuitive ideas nonsense open-minded open-mindedness science scrutiny skeptical skepticism truth

Carl Sagan

3a3a14c

NONE OF THIS NONSENSE, PLEASE

nonsense

Patricia C. Wrede

90ae50d

"The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!"

alice-through-the-looking-glass lewis-carrol nonsense red-queen sensible

Lewis Carroll

bdcaf69

Otulissa swelled up to twice her normal size. 'Well, SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!

insult nonsense otulissa

Kathryn Lasky

9383d45

She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.

common-sense fashion nonsense victorian-era

Jeannette Walls

79dea2e

But Noodynaady's actual ingrate tootle is of come into the garner mauve and thy nice are stores of morning and buy me a bunch of iodines.

nonsense

James Joyce

c875306

You alarm me!' said the King. 'I feel faint--Give me a ham sandwich!' On which the Messenger, to Alice's great amusement, opened a bag that hung round his neck, and handed a sandwich to the King, who devoured it greedily. 'Another sandwich!' said the King. 'There's nothing but hay left now,' the Messenger said, peeping into the bag. 'Hay, then,' the King murmured in a faint whisper. Alice was glad to see that it revived him a good deal. 'There's nothing like eating hay when you're faint,' he remarked to her, as he munched away. 'I should think throwing cold water over you would be better,' Alice suggested: 'or some .' 'I didn't say there was nothing ,' the King replied. 'I said there was nothing it.' Which Alice did not venture to deny.

faint hay like nonsense sandwich

Lewis Carroll

409372a

"...indeed, with the Radletts, you never could tell. Why, for instance, would Victoria bellow like a bull and half kill Jassy whenever Jassy said, in a certain tone of voice, pointing her finger with a certain look, "Fancy?" I think they hardly knew why, themselves."

humor nonsense

Nancy Mitford

a7bbb02

When I was young, most teachers of philosophy in British and American universities were Hegelians, so that, until I read Hegel, I supposed there must be some truth to his system; I was cured, however, by discovering that everything he said on the philosophy of mathematics was plain nonsense.

nonsense philosophy-of-mathematics

Bertrand Russell

5839b0b

Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense is part of the huge fund of unreason on which the plans and schemes of optimists draw for their vitality. Nonsense confiscates meaning. It thereby puts truth and falsehood, reason and unreason, light and darkness on an equal footing. It is a blow cast in defence of intellectual freedom, as the optimists construe it, namely the freedom to believe anything at all, provided you feel better for it.

believe darkness debate equal falsehood feel feeling freedom heart light meaning nonsense optimism optimists plan plans public reason scheme schemes truth unreason vitality

Roger Scruton

47f34b0

BLARGLE SLORG NOTH HARGHLE FTHAGN! You know. The usual.

funny nonsense usual

Jim Butcher

2c4e141

The crumbs blow free down the pointless sea To the beat of a cakey heart And the sensitive steel of the knife can feel That love is a race apart In the speed of the lingering light are blown The crumbs to the hake above, And the tropical air vibrates to the drone Of a cake in the throes of love.

nonsense

Mervyn Peake

e1a225e

Le stelle in cielo Non conoscono l'ira Bla, bla, bla, fine

nonsense palahniuk quotes stelle

Chuck Palahniuk

fe38bb7

Apple Computers is a famous example: it was founded by (mostly Republican) computer engineers who broke from IBM in Silicon Valley in the 198os, forming little democratic circles of twenty to forty people with their laptops in each other's garages.

nonsense

David Graeber

c64da67

"I asked, "When the Rebellions were at its peak doing nonsense, everyone was trying to keep away from the area, yet you were going in, why were you going into that area? Supt. Strachan answered quite frankly, Because I was not afraid. I felt like they are my people, they are my color. I don't know of anyone born after me that I should be afraid of, that was how I felt. I knew I could've walk through Strachan's Corner, sit down and felt at home, and their parents also accepted me. I came to the conclusion; these kids just need someone to show them some attention. They just wanted to belong, that was what a lot of them were looking for. So I said to myself, if I could assist them I would, and that was what I did. Supt. Allerdyce Strachan, the first female officer to rise to the rank of superintendent on the Royal Bahamas Police Force."

at-risk-communities at-risk-youth attention caring-cops caring-person clubs community-policing crime-prevention doing-good feeling-at-home feeling-wanted gang-intervention gang-members good-cops helping-people law-enforcement love-in-action love-of-country my-color my-kind my-people no-child-left-behind nonsense not-afraid not-giving-up parents-acceptance police-intervention police-outreach police-programs police-relations police-superintendent reaching-gang-members rebellion-raiders sense-of-belonging showing-love touching-lives wanting-to-belong woman-police youth youth-programs

Drexel Deal

f256413

Oh, Lor' bless ou , mum,' Azazel answered quickly, 'I am laden with all sorts of gimcracks and gaudy gewgaws, fripperies, filigrees, and fooleries, not to mention frivolities, fancies, and fiddledeedees. I have all kinds of iridescent idiocies, and any number of oddities, ordinary or obsolescent, as well as a fair supply of spangled sillinesses, though I may as well warn you, they're taking those off the market, and I won't be able to get you no spare parts nor replacements, ayup, I also carry, of course, a stock of the commoner baubles and jinglements for those whose tastes lies there. Also gum for the children, those as have them.

gimcracks nonsense oddities peddler sale

Peter S. Beagle