Jesse Ball Quotes

There's a misunderstanding about what nonsensical things are - the idea that they're just funny, and that's the beginning and the end of it. Nonsense is not 'not sense' - it operates at the edge of sense. It teems with sense - at the same time, it resists any kind of universal understanding.

Jesse Ball

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 7, 1978

Topics

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I'm not really shy.

Robert Picardo

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If I'm seeing a three-hour foreign film, I don't want to watch it in a bed.

John Waters

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In becoming an icon, it is useful to die young.

John Updike

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I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.

Amanda Tapping

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I'm blind in my left eye. Contrary to what people say, it is not a glass eye, so I have to protect my eyes at all cost.

Stuart Scott

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A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.

Simon Mainwaring

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The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family.

Townsend Harris

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I was involved in the robbery for a purpose, and that was because I knew somebody who could drive a diesel train. I was responsible to take along this old guy who could drive the train.

Ronald Biggs

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I feel like kids are the perfect psychic investigators of their parents, and kids understand their parents' unconscious better than the parents ever do.

Mike Mills

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I can reach the mass audience if I come from different perspectives on every song.

Miranda Lambert

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We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Joseph de Maistre

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I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.

Joseph O'Neill

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