The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
She say guilt is a useless emotion." "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Useless to worry until we find outselves blocked. ... If it happens, then we must simply find a way around it. It… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Now let the matter rest as it is, or as it may be, what avail useless speculations? What is to occur we… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Thee are such horrible weapons. And so no sane leader would ever want to cross that line to using nuclear weapons. And,… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
God plants His saints in the most useless places. We say, 'God intends me to be here because I am so useful.'… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you take a salesman, who sells a useless commodity, he feels like a fraud. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The inlet of a man's mind is what he learns; the outlet is what he accomplishes. If his mind is not fed… — Jeremiah Jenks Copy Share Image
Im's offspring stare at stars and make clocks that calculate useless happenings like the angle of a hawk's claws as it strikes… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Well, I hate it when authors come into a school and they say to kids, 'Write from your heart, only write what… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless. — Charles II of England Copy Share Image
In my better moments, I think of apathy as purpose's sleep. In my worse moments, when I'm trying to fix it or… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
The personal deportment of Captain Perry, throughout the day, was worthy of all praise. He did not quit his own vessel when… — Oliver Hazard Perry Copy Share Image
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part… — Bei Dao Copy Share Image
