Useless Quotes · Page 28

“Champagne’s completely useless, you know,” he said. “The only good part is the moment you pop the cork.”

— Haruki Murakami

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

— Sophia Bush

A concept is useless without an application and an application is useless without courage.

— Anonymous

It is useless for alcoholics to worry about the future, for there will soon be no future for them to worry about.

— Vikrant Parsai

The key, I suppose, has less to do with insight than with willingness, the former being relatively useless without the latter.

— Caroline Knapp

If you cant add value to my life then you have to be useless to me

— Olubayo Adebiyi

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

— Chuck Jones

most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and…

— Arthur Miller

If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but…

— Bodhidharma

There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we…

— Maggie Kuhn

Print neatly. That's the kind of advice that the IRS considers a "dynamite" tax tip. If you ask them a real tax…

— Dave Barry

In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain…

— Ernest Starling

Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden…

— Ouida

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us…

— Geronimo

At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless.…

— Anonymous

Meg was going to have to learn for herself what Laurie had figured out over the summer - that it was better…

— Tom Perrotta

Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can…

— Patrick Ness

Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and…

— Nathanael Greene

You have to realize there is nothing more you can do to convince someone you love to turn their life around. You…

— Ellen Hopkins

Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always…

— Samuel Johnson

I cannot imagine why a woman would ever call herself anything but a feminist. But a man calling himself a feminist, what…

— Stephen Marche

But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

— Charles II of England

Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.

— Lisa Kleypas

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The vaults of Buckingham palace are groaning with priceless, useless freebies from foreign dignitaries.

— Tina Brown

Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.

— Alton Brown

I think Yelp is neither good nor bad for the food industry. I find it useless.

— Andrew Zimmern

Being human is a precious situation, and we shouldn't waste time in useless activities.

— Sakyong Mipham

Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.

— Hugh Prather

So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best.

— Joan Collins

Always take quite time for yourself, or you will be useless for anyone else.

— Vikrant Parsai

Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.

— Eileen Wilks

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

Why had I taken all those useless classes like bio and German when I should have been taking lipreading?

— Meg Cabot

If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it.

— Roger Scruton

Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country... useless... useless.

— John Wilkes Booth