Famous Quotes & Sayings

Romola Garai

I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!

Raymond Chandler

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

William James

The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.

Samuel Johnson

Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.

Werner Herzog

We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.

Samuel Beckett

It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want, then life begins to ram her fish and chips down your gullet until you puke, and then the puke down your gullet until you puke the puke, and then the puked puke until you begin to like it.

Roger Scruton

Nothing is more useful than the useless.

Will Self

Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me is an overpowering urge to visit violence on its originator.

Samuel Johnson

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.

Bobby Perry

I think somebody sniped me from up in the rafters. No, I was exhausted and I just tripped over my feet.

Winona Ryder

I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

Winston Churchill

Americans always do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other possibilities.

Robert Jordan

Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.

Christopher Hill

Patience has been exhausted and we need to see a pullback of the (Serbian) security forces, whose only purpose at this point that we can see is to be in opposition to the general public there.

Rick Carlisle

Part of the problem was that Jermaine was sick (Monday) and he was really exhausted in the first half. I know his physical situation contributed to some of his struggles. We just didn't have the luxury of sitting him much tonight.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I have this system. I torture my husband and everyone around me with my nerves and anxiety. Then, when I get on stage, the fear is gone. I've exhausted myself. It just dissipates.

Wendy Cukier

I'm just so exhausted that it's hard to be jubilant.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.

Howard Moore

He's just seizing the opportunity. It's the evolution of him as a player. He's starting to find out more and more what his niche is.

Dwight Davis

It comes out at sort of this strange time in the company's product evolution, the last gasp of the DOS line and Windows 98.

Bill Jones

We've gone through an evolution of technologies. The capabilities our technology can provide are now what the industry is demanding.

Joseph Wright

I think this is just a normal step going forward, ... We're kind of following a normal evolution in our industry. Consolidation is not only necessary, but inevitable.

Alexis Bledel

I think that's what makes life interesting-the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.

Steve Hockett

I think that they're falling more into the mainstream of marketing their brand. It's the normal evolution of their business.

Vanna Bonta

LIFE: Love, Intelligence, Fun, Evolution in that order.

Michael Ruse

I do not see evolution as something that is anti-religion.

Richard Dawkins

Have they discovered evolution yet?