Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georges Clemenceau

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

Frances Farmer

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

...there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

Jeff Lindsay

And here I always thought morality was useless

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.

Horace

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

Candace Bushnell

I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion.

Cassandra Clare

Not all that is mortal is useless.

Frank Herbert

Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.

Mo Rocca

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

Milton Friedman

In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.

Gloria Feldt

Power unused is power useless.

Jasper Carrott

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

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.

Ellen Hopkins

As I thought about that, I had to wonder: What will we know better about tomorrow? Who cares? Hindsight is useless.

Joan Collins

So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best.

Leo Tolstoy

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

Joseph Campbell

You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.

Minnie Driver

Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.

Haruki Murakami

Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.

Joy Behar

It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.

Kanye West

To use is necessary. And if you can't be used, then you're useless.

Nikki Cox

I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.

Madonna Ciccone

Words are useless, especially sentences.

Michel de Montaigne

There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself

Michel de Montaigne

Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.

Isak Dinesen

I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller.

J. K. Rowling

Get up, you useless lump, get up!

Mircea Eliade

And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.

Michael Buble

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

Markus Zusak

The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.