Quotes by Useless There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side. Alfred Adler uselesssidessteps Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned. Alfred Hitchcock purchasing-powerconcerneduseless Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful. Alfred North Whitehead uselesseducationideas The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth. Alfred North Whitehead boredomuselessmen 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. Alice Englert uselessstorieslittles I once was absolutely useless, and God in His grace has made me useful. Alistair Begg uselessgracemade We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously essential, economically useless and totally without redeeming social significance. One should not probe for Allen Steck climbingessentialsuseless Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless. Alton Brown techniqueuselesssound All the measurement in the world is useless if you don't make any changes based on the data. Amber Naslund datauselessworld For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy. Andre Dubus tonightuselesstwenties Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain. Andre Gide uselesscomplaining I've always felt that dark lyrics with dark music is pretty useless. Maybe that's a strong statement - not useless, but for me, it's just boring. Andrew Bird uselessstrongdark It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl. Anna Howard Shaw virtueuselessgirl It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body. Anna Pavlova nervesuselessbeauty She say guilt is a useless emotion." "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals. Anna Quindlen uselessguiltanimal I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless. Anne Stevenson uselessorderbelieve To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I inserted myself in a vise-clamp and wound the handle till the pressure built. I drank coffee in titrated doses. It was a tricky business, requiring the finely tuned judgment of a skilled anesthesiologist. There was a tiny range within which coffee was effective, short of which it was useless, and beyond which, fatal. Annie Dillard tinycoffeeuseless There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue. Anton Chekhov vapidmediocrityuseless Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. Anton Chekhov uselessdoephilosophy Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison. Anton Chekhov escapinguselessprison«1234567891011»
