Useful Quotes

1790 Useful quotes by 1250 unique authors

My time in the World Rally Championship has been a useful stage in my career, but I can't deny the fact that my hunger for… — Kimi Raikkonen
I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger,… — Lisa Marie Presley
Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts (grows as it… — Jasper Johns
I'm not looking for images, They just appear and take on an interest. Sometimes you look at a thing and it has no interest and… — Jasper Johns
Having a hearing is educational. Having a hearing with television cameras is useful. Having a hearing with two rows of television cameras is Heaven. — Tim Wirth
France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take… — Francois Hollande
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it — Richard P. Feynman
A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software… — Fred Brooks
When you draw a nude, sketch the whole figure and nicely fit the members to it and to each other. Even though you may only… — Leonardo da Vinci
There are five main purposes of central bank cooperation"..."the provision of international credits and joint efforts to influence asset prices (especially gold and foreign exchange)… — Unknown Author
Above all else, products spread when they're useful and they're usable — Kevin Systrom
Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done — Timothy Geithner
The only thing useful banks have invented in 20 years is the ATM. — Paul Volcker
Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for… — Robert Musil
The old SV (Socialist Left Party) were useful idiots for the communists in Moscow. Today's SV are useful idiots for Saddam Hussein. — Carl I. Hagen
People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had… — Tad Williams
Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could… — Elizabeth Moon
These transnationalists have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from the… — Samuel P. Huntington
I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be… — Robert Fripp
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes… — Henri Poincare
Don't eat me. I am an inchworm. I am useful. I measure things. — Leo Lionni
Fairy dust is very useful. I use it to turn oatmeal into cake. — David Shannon
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic… — Carl Schmitt
I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The devil is said to set… — Tayari Jones
Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful. — George E. P. Box

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