All things that are living are expression and therefore part of the inherent symbology of life. Art, therefore, that is encumbered with… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Everything a director does must help the story and the performances. Otherwise, it is useless. — William Wyler Copy Share Image
A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through… — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But remember,… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks.… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble,… — John Amos Comenius Copy Share Image
Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything,"… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
You get a lot of apps and companies that are trying to sell you on something that's totally useless or potentially unhealthy.… — Thomas Middleditch Copy Share Image
Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Texans ignore "better," long ago forgot the useless word "good." Everything in Texas is "best." — Edward Smith Copy Share Image
Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There's something that happens in that delivery room, when a woman becomes ten times more a woman, and a guy becomes six… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
It's a weird profession, as I don't really consider myself an actor. I did at one point, and I went and started… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce)… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image