Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mo Rocca

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

J. K. Rowling

Get up, you useless lump, get up!

Markus Zusak

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

Cassandra Clare

Not all that is mortal is useless.

Horace

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

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

Georges Clemenceau

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

Gloria Feldt

Power unused is power 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.

Isak Dinesen

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

Elton John

The French are useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.

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.

Jose Rizal

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

Henry Adams

A senator is like a begonia - showy but useless.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.

Mircea Eliade

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

Napoleon Hill

Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action!

Joan Collins

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

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.

Herodotus

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

Henry Ford

Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

Ellen Hopkins

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

Mahatma Gandhi

A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.

James Surowiecki

To be sure, if you watch CNBC all day long you'll pick up some interesting news about particular companies and the economy as a whole. Unfortunately, to get to the useful information, you have to wade through reams of useless stuff, with little guidance on how to distinguish between the two.

Henry Ford

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

John Calvin

Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.

Minnie Driver

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

Sonia Rykiel

It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry.