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.

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force and their submission is wisdom but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.

There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not at some time make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

I come from a line of self-motivated determined folk - not grand not high society but no-nonsense family-minded go-getters.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.

I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it and most of the good people I knew were Christians.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but we thought if people needed a crutch for consolation where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means in both science and religion by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power that's totally nonsense.