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.

Truman Capote

If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.

Sarah Dessen

You didn't have to take a punch for me, you know,' he said. 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' 'You're a freak is what you are,' I said.

Sandra Bullock

I am a lover like no lover has ever loved before!

Saint Basil

To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.

Rose Tremain

Life should be embraced like a lover.

Khalil Gibran

Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

The lover's pleasure is in the pleasure of the beloved. The lover is satisfied when the beloved is fed. The lover is vain when the beloved is adorned.

Mahatma Gandhi

Lovers of Swaraj cannot rest till a solution is found which would allay Mussalman apprehensions and yet not endanger Swaraj.

Gina Lollobrigida

I've had many lovers and still have romances. I am very spoiled. All my life, I've had too many admirers.

Richelle Mead

I'm really not good with impulse control.

Russell Brand

I've always had this impulse to be destructive.

David Gale

Instant tickets are impulse purchase items. They don't go on a shopping list.

Atharva Veda

The first impulse of jealousy, moreover the one that comes after the first, the fire, the heart-burning, that do wc waft away from thee.

Tom Stoffel

The impulse purchase is gone. Now we have to be a destination.

Laurence Sterne

What persons are by starts they are by nature.

Marya Hornbacher

There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe. It was at that time that my impulse control just went out the window. Impulse control when you're manic just disappears.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.

Stephen Graham Jones

You can't negotiate with a zombie. They have only one impulse - that's to eat us or our brains.