Useful Things Quotes

46 quotes by 43 authors

The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink. — Dorothy Parker
I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful… — Stephen Dunn
America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is… — Don DeLillo
Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed… — Nick Park
But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says… — John Shelton Reed
I am a maker of useful things. — Eva Zeisel
Do not use intoxicants of any sort. We who should be serving the world should not ruin our health by smoking and drinking. The money… — Mata Amritanandamayi
Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things… — Craig Reucassel
Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that… — Warren Christopher
All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility. — Zhuangzi
Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy… — Michael Gove
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the… — Victor Hugo
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. — Karl Marx
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. — W. Somerset Maugham
I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in… — Gary Numan
Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better - has deliberately… — George Will
I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing. — Alice Walker
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it — Oscar Wilde
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things. — Deanna Raybourn

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