Useless Quotes

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

Accusations are useless.

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

Love's boat has been shattered against the life of everyday. You and I are quits, and it's useless to draw up a list of mutual hurts, sorrows, and pains.

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

I'm useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I'll say no that black line should be red and it should go this way or that way.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless.

It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.