Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Bryson

In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.

Alan Coren

The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.

Dominique de Villepin

Accusations are useless.

Aaron Copland

The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.

When together, an ocean. When separate, a useless drop.

Edward Abbey

Without courage, all other virtues are useless.

Ben Horowitz

Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.

Aldo Leopold

At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

A. J. Jacobs

Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.

Dan Millman

Like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold many facts and opinions, yet know little of yourself. Before you can learn, you'll have to first empty your tank.

Louis C. K.

You have to do a show as honestly as you can. But you also can't afford skepticism, because it's preparing for failure, which is useless.

Alice Englert

Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. Its the only way that I can do anything, even if Im quite useless. Its the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.

Albert J. Nock

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

Albert Camus

One grows out of pity when it's useless.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Planning is useless... but the process itself is indispensable.

Chuck Palahniuk

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.

Alfred Hitchcock

Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.

Alfred Adler

There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.

Angela Carter

And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just as useless at looking after themselves, can't handle their cash just like the rich can't, always squandering it on bright, pretty, useless things in just the same way.

Alton Brown

Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.

Charles Bukowski

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

Dave Barry

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

Jose Mujica

I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.

Jack Nicholson

Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But remember, as my plastic surgeon always said: if you gotta go, go with a smile.

Guy Pearce

If I'm exhausted, physically and particularly emotionally, I can't tell what's good and I can't tell what's bad and I'm useless.

Jeff Lindsay

And here I always thought morality was useless

Georges Clemenceau

There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.

Jasper Carrott

I have to confess here that I am a useless cook.

Horace

High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.

Francis Picabia

Only useless things are indispensable.

Francis Bacon

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

George Eliot

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.