“And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“ALWAYS FULL OF QUESTIONS...How many times must I tell you, better to listen than to talk. But you're always talking...asking useless things...whatever… — Arlene J. Chai Copy Share Image
“He been a good man always, I think, but this tenderness was new. It was the tenderness of an old man who… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Tears are useless things; tiny droplets of salt infused water, insignificant and pitiful.” — Pippa DaCosta Copy Share Image
Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things! — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
“He walked around all the useless things in the courtyard and touched them with his hands; for some reason, he wished that… — Andrei Platonov Copy Share Image
“The old man sang for a while, and Mora felt in her head the beginning of a long siege. A wilderness had… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
“As for the danger of alienating people with good intentions — well, one of the things that I learned from RaceFail (and… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
I hate the Internet. It's full of rubbish. I'm on it all the time, watching terrible, useless things and ossifying my brain. — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“Supermarkets this large and clean and modern are a revelation to me. I spent my life in small steamy delicatessens with slanted… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as on useful ones.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Come to think of it I don't know that love has a point, which is what makes it so glorious. Sex has… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“When we were young, we understood all sweet things; and we could detect the sweets of a fairy story by an unerring… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling,… — Plato Copy Share Image
True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men.… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
“Time and task were both disorienting, for if you were to remove everything from our lives that depends on electricity to function,… — Jane Brox Copy Share Image
“I'm me, and what the hell can I do about it! ... I, the solemn investigator of useless things...” — Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa Copy Share Image
“While we are postponing, life speeds by. Nothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time. We were entrusted by nature with the ownership of… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“The Utopians call those nations that come and ask magistrates from them Neighbours; but those to whom they have been of more… — Sir Thomas More Copy Share Image
“Reader: Will you not admit that you are arguing against yourself? You know that what the English obtained in their own country… — Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas K Copy Share Image
The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
