Pointless Quotes

328 quotes by 284 authors

Everything useful in mathematics has been devised for a purpose. Even if you don't know it, the guy who did it first, he knew what… — Michael Atiyah
I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting… — Bruce Nauman
I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the stones, the stars, was enveloped… — Hayden Carruth
The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the… — William J. Brennan
Life is like watching Fast and the Furious 6. Its not easy, most of the time its just dumb and pointless, everything is fake, there… — Jon Lajoie
I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so. — Sara Gruen
I've tried it a couple of times over the years, mainly because the thing Ubuntu did so well was make Debian usable.Â I always felt that… — Linus Torvalds
I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me. — Matthew Healy
What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity. — Kurt Vonnegut
The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had been leading a… — Norman Mailer
The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless. — Francoise Sagan
Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The more comprehensible the universe becomes the more pointless it seems. — Steven Weinberg
If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof. — George Harrison
No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue. For Samuel mourned… — Maximus the Confessor
Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how… — Isaac Marion
The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic… — Anthony Minghella
You take out an injunction against somebody or some organisation and immediately news of that injunction and the people involved and the story behind the… — Jeremy Clarkson
Turning to the colour-classification methodology: The starting point are the four pure colours red, yellow, green and blue; their in-between shades and scales of brightness… — Gerhard Richter
Asking me why I did or didn't do anything is generally pointless. How do I know? And asking me what I'll do in the future… — Lawrence Block

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