If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
The inability of some critics to connect the dots doesn't make pointillism pointless — Georges Seurat Copy Share Image
Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any goal without salvation as its ultimate end is as pointless as trying to live forever on this earth. — Tarek Saab Copy Share Image
The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Slowly, I've come to realize That I cannot heal my past And that fearing the unavoidable future Is pointless — Ayumi Hamasaki Copy Share Image
It's responsible for the sloppiness and imprecision of the War on Terror, for example. It's responsible for taking people's tax dollars and… — Timothy Hallinan Copy Share Image
It was the winter of war, in 1939. It felt completely pointless to try to create pictures... I suddenly felt an urge… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any… — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
A true friend is someone who never gets tired listening to your pointless drama over and over again. — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
For a while Australians were desperately trying to be cosmopolitan. I think it is a pointless exercise. Australian novels are those rooted… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination.… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie,… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
it is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of… — Santha Rama Rau Copy Share Image
This is something I'd heard him say before: getting angry at another driver for a driving incident is pointless. You need to… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that… — Boethius Copy Share Image
“Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience this problem differently?” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
I do sometimes think I could have done without the drugs actually; that was a waste of time, and a huge risk.… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
The suit is the polite taming, the socialising, the neutering, of riding and military kit. Those pointless buttons on the cuff were… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I got good grades in school, but I'm not sure if I'm smart or if it just means I can study. I've… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
