Uses Quotes

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

I love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the writer; to directing actors and the camera and working with music, sound, marketing and promotion. It uses so many sides of your brain.

A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.

In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.

I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don't impose that on the actors.

Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!

As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

It seems extraordinary to have waited so long into one's life to have found the part that actually uses your basic rhythm. And I think that's always sort of what actors connect up with - their own sort of world.

Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew.

Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.

Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system.