Practicals Quotes · Page 5

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

— Rick Riordan

Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason.

— Joseph Alexander Leighton

Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

— John McLaughlin

Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.

— Ted Malloch

A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

Dreams aren't practical, but we can't live without them.

— Will Hobbs

Everything I did was practical. You have to strip things down and get to the practical stuff.

— Gene LeBell

This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote…

— Stanford Moore

If we were to start today on an organized and well-supported space program I believe a practical passenger rocket can be built…

— Wernher von Braun

Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.

— Karl Marx

For me, the creative process, first of all, requires a good nine hours of sleep a night. Second, it must not be…

— Anonymous

The fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed,…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I'd worked with Marlon [Brando] a couple of times, and he was a practical joker. He was far more interested in getting…

— Johnny Depp

Choices are much more practical and small when you're dealing with a real story. It's about execution, it's not about content.

— David Simon

Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes…

— Sue Grafton

When you strip the bark off of Donald Trump, I think he's a very practical person. I think he's a very smart…

— Anthony Scaramucci

I've always said if somebody wrote a book and they took their whole life to learn that knowledge in that book, why…

— Jeff Olson

Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if…

— Theodore Roosevelt

No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely…

— Carl L. Becker

In Charn [Jadis] had taken no notice of Polly (till the very end) because Digory was the one she wanted to make…

— Anonymous

In a practical sense, pain kept me from sitting down as much, so that sometimes I would have to stand to write.…

— Lynne Tillman

Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does…

— Karl Marx

We have heard enough about being practical and efficient and prudent. We heard it preached through several decades that these things would…

— Ellis Arnall

Bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. Weapons of war must be abolished before…

— John F. Kennedy

[Not parroting.] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, 'Lord, Lord, Lord'…

— Swami Vivekananda

For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our…

— Susan B. Anthony

Pharmacogenomics holds great promise to shed scientific light on the often risky and costly process of drug development, and to provide greater…

— Mark McClellan

Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass,…

— Barack Obama

I've never been able to write poetry without having vast tracts of dead time. Poetry requires a certain kind of disciplined indolence…

— Christian Wiman

Humanity has been sleeping-and still sleeps-lulled within the narrowly confining joys of its little closed loves. In the depths of the human…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The costs of an ignorance of science are nor just practical ones like misbegotten policies, forgone cures, and a unilateral disarmament in…

— Steven Pinker

Transformation comes more from pursuing profound questions than seeking practical answers.

— Peter Block

He had ambitions, at one time, to become a sex maniac, but he failed his practical.

— Les Dawson

Life is too short not to do a little practical joking.

— Krista Allen

I never really was much of a practical jokester or anything.

— Kristanna Loken

The most practical information about life is sneered at by social planners.

— James Cook

Technical know-how of the experts must be transformed into practical do-how of the people.

— Y. C. James Yen

Film is not very practical. The new world goes faster, and digital is very fast.

— Patrick Demarchelier

I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!

— George W. Crane