Useful Quotes

Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.

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 useful positions in our view.

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.

Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Society as a whole is better off when information is available to the public. Whether you are talking about how to prevent disease, or about who does the best job of treating disease, it is useful to provide as much information to the public as possible.

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.

Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process.

Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.

Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that.

I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.