Top 1200 Useful Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.

Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers, when he came to compare them with their originals, he was surprised to find that they were nothing for his purpose! the originals conveyed a quite contrary sense to that of the pretended quoters, who often, from innocent blundering, and sometimes from purposed deception, had falsified their quotations. This is an useful story for second-hand authorities!

... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.

I'd never done anything useful as far as my writing.

I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society.

Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.

The computer is really a useful gadget for consuming time.

I got what I needed out of Princeton in 1 year, and I didn't think it was useful.

I have planted my flag in my comedy being useful for social change.

It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

My problem is how to find the best way of being useful.

Only the highway of useful service leads to the city of happiness.

Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.

The lifestyle that I have is probably neither desirable nor useful to most people.

The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.

I want to make something that's useful to someone, somewhere.

You're not useful to me until you've made three momentous mistakes.

The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

Truth and eggs are useful only while they are fresh.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Above all else, products spread when they're useful and they're usable

The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.

Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.

I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.

Had I to give advice to writers (and I do not think they need it, because everyone has to find out things for himself), I would tell them simply this; I would ask them to tamper as little as they can with their own work. I do not think tinkering does any good. The moment comes when one has found out what one can do - when one has found one's natural voice, one's rhythm. Then I do not think that slight emendations should prove useful.

I spend lots of time on the Web, some of it even useful.

Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.

Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful.

I think it's important that we eliminate regulations that are not serving a useful purpose.

I think what I have to offer is more useful in theatre than on screen.

Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.

As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.

He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.

Stop trying to be amazing and start being useful.

Verbal contracts are about as useful as a fart on a treadmill.

The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.

Arguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so.

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.

Sometimes it can be useful to read your bad reviews.

Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.

Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.

Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.

I am grateful that my one talent, flying, was useful to my country.

Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.

I am still alive then. That may come in useful.

Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.