Famous Quotes & Sayings

Romola Garai

I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!

Raymond Chandler

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

Richard Turner

Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don’t.

Roger Scruton

Nothing is more useful than the useless.

Samuel Johnson

Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.

Samuel Johnson

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.

Samuel Johnson

To a poet nothing can be useless.

Werner Herzog

We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.

Samuel Beckett

It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want, then life begins to ram her fish and chips down your gullet until you puke, and then the puke down your gullet until you puke the puke, and then the puked puke until you begin to like it.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

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.

Cassandra Clare

Not all that is mortal is useless.

Mo Rocca

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

Frank Herbert

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

Candace Bushnell

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

Milton Friedman

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

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!

Gloria Feldt

Power unused is power useless.

Elton John

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

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.

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.

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.

Napoleon Hill

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

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.