Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Bryson

In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.

Dave Barry

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

Alan Coren

The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.

Charles Bukowski

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

Aldo Leopold

At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant.

Abu Bakr

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

A. J. Jacobs

Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.

Alice Englert

Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. Its the only way that I can do anything, even if Im quite useless. Its the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.

Albert J. Nock

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

Don Cheadle

One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.

David D. Burns

Accept yourself. But realize your behaviors can be bad.

Byron Katie

You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.

Cary Elwes

The things that you know intellectually when you're young become internalized as you get older. You realize all those clichés.

Alan Watts

The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?

Alan Watts

I too realize that the less I preach the more likely I am to be heard.

Edith Stein

Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.

Beatrice Wood

But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.

Kurt Vonnegut

You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.

Aristotle

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

Ben Jonson

Have you a stool there to be melancholy upon?

David Guterson

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

Baruch Spinoza

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Albert Camus

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

Alexander McQueen

I am a melancholy type of person.

Edgar Allan Poe

I fell in love with melancholy

James Boswell

Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

Isaac Mizrahi

I'm so involved in melancholy.