My friend George and I were walking on the beach in Norfolk, and there were thousands of [razor-clam] shells. They were so… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
And last of all we have the secondary forms of crystals bursting in upon us, and sparkling in the rigidity of mathematical… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Always help people increase their own self-esteem. Develop your skill in making other people feel important. There is hardly a higher compliment… — Donald Laird Copy Share Image
Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights,… — Ellen Terry Copy Share Image
The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness. — Marlin Fitzwater Copy Share Image
Each piece of dialogue MUST be "something happening". . .The "amusing" for its OWN sake should above all be censored. . .The… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Futility. Uselessness. Bloody entrophy. Death matters, at least sometimes.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
My writing practice taught me the important thing is steadfastness. It's not necessarily discipline. Discipline can become a prison. When your spiritual… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The writer cultivates, extends, raises and inflates his imagination, sure that this is his destiny, his usefulness, his contribution to the understanding… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Nothing in this world is so good as usefulness. It binds your fellow-creatures to you, and you to them; it tends to… — Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
“Even a wasted life stands as an important example and therefore can never be useless.” — Mark Wallace Copy Share Image
The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Shape clay into a vessel; It is the space within that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows for a room; It… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
