Only in the Orwellian world of double-speak employed by President Barack Obama and billionaire elitist Michael Bloomberg would nonsense be hailed as 'common sense.'

I complained about the gimmicks. All the nonsense and garbage. After a while I just said I would not wrestle with the guys wearing masks, or guys that had some get-up on. It was demeaning. I refuse to go onto the mat against a Christmas tree.

I have been invited to do something called 'Celebrity MasterChef' in England, which, of course, I can't do. It's complete nonsense. You have to be a decent cook to begin with. I'd be the joke one.

People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive.

We're going to stop looking at Earth from orbit because we don't like what we are seeing and the conclusions that leads us to? That's nonsense.

I really don't have time for nonsense.

The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

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

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?

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.

It's a nonsense because, as we all know, there are brilliant 15-year-old readers and hopeless 50-year-old readers. All that categorisation is a matter of bookshop shelves rather than literary categories, I think.

People at the record labels were like, 'We don't want to sign you, you're girls' - sexist, ridiculous nonsense.

When we started reading books to Raffi, I included some Russian ones. A friend had handed down a beautiful book of Daniil Kharms poems for children; they were not nonsense verse, but they were pretty close, and Raffi enjoyed them.

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

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

A lot of what I do - I have to try and make sense of things before I can make nonsense of them.

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

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.