Top 1200 Useless Stuff Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.

I've always been someone who needs someone with them to poke and annoy. I'm useless at being by myself.

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

The minute I start being afraid of what people might say is the minute I become useless to God.

If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.

Every day you spend becoming an expert in a field, you become more useless in that field.

I'm walking around our apartment right now, and I see tons of action figures everywhere. There's Spider-Man stuff, old 1996 WWF figures, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Marvel stuff.

I guess, on my list, going back to some old American stuff and British stuff that I used to love in the '80s, would be a British show called Dad's Army, which recently just turned into a movie.

I have a feeling I'm going to wake up one day and say 'I can't do dirty stuff anymore, I want to go all clean.' I'll do clean stuff too, I like to entertain people. Then they egged me on; we shot it at The Laugh Factory.

Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.

That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.

I did plenty of crazy stuff, but I did a lot of charity stuff. You can't stop. You want to continue to taste, and sometimes that's crazy, stupid things.

I have a lot of intention behind what I put out there. The reason all this stuff I do works together, the environmental and social, collaborating with ballet companies to score a show, the bike tour - all of that stuff comes together through community building with music.

The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.

My aunt made stuff; my mom was creative, so I was surrounded by that. When I moved to England, it was '75, and everything was happening. My whole teenage life is England, glam rock and David Bowie and Sex Pistols and Iggy Pop, all that stuff.

Ant & Dec have always nicked stuff off us. We met their writers, they said they just trawl our stuff and adapt it. The problem is they're a lot bigger than us, so people think we're copying them.

I think you just learn a lot of stuff in general about all the stuff he [Edward Snowden] released. I think there's probably a lot that we don't know. That's what is really interesting.

With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!

And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.

I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat.

It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.

In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

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

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat

I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture. It's one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is really pointing out the ideology of America. It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous comedy.

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

The majority of my job is being an open channel, and if I'm not being very authentic with who I am in myself, then it doesn't feel like I can dig down deep and get to really vulnerable stuff, or stuff I have never felt before.

I don't read a lot of things, and if I hear things, I don't really think about them because it's useless.

The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions

I'm stunned at some of the stuff Johnny Miller comes out with sometimes. He is very harsh and frankly I find some of the stuff he sees very disrespectful.

Don't, to gain general and useless attention, sacrifice the attention that you want

I never in my career did appearances, like where you go and sign autographs, and you do the comic-cons and all of that stuff, because I wanted, when I stopped wrestling, to go and do that stuff and have it really mean something to somebody, that it hadn't been watered down.

Growing up in Minnesota, I had a lot of freedom to run around, and we had go-carts and four-wheelers and all that stuff. I like that adrenalin-rush stuff. I did a little bit of dance, but mostly sports.

I love having ten times as much stuff to do as I can possibly find time to do. That way, I can pick the one-tenth that I want to do most. But if I only have enough to just occupy all my time, I'm stuck doing all of whatever stuff it happens to be.

Cesaro is a guy who does a lot of unique stuff and is a great talent. He does a lot of strong-man stuff that is just impressive to watch.

I'm kind of at a point in my career where I can get away with traditional stuff and then get away with some more rocky and pop and edgier stuff, too.

I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.

Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

I eat a lot of pasta. We eat relatively healthy. I don't eat fast food, mostly home-cooked stuff. Chicken. Salads. Stuff like that. Oatmeal for breakfast. A big dinner.

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

People could write stuff that's really offensive, but if it's written within a believable world that has a tone to it, then it can be funny. But if it's just shock-value stuff, then it's not going to work, because it's not coming from a true place.

A lot of people get flipped out if you're quiet. They say stuff like, What are you thinking? And if they don't start interrogating you, they start talking, going on and on about stuff that's totally irrelevant, and the silence gets so big and loud that it's scary.

Searching for a boy in high school is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie.

I think always, when you have a candidate promising free stuff, and another promising less stuff or nothing, the one who promises more is always going to have the advantage.

I've got one of Darwin's books at home and some of that stuff is pretty damn funny. Some of his stuff is true, like that the giraffe has a long neck so it can reach the leaves. But I just don't think you can swallow the whole piece.

Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

If you want to be a person who buys stuff at the dollar store, you can be that person. If you want to make really cool stuff on your desktop and be the manufacturer, that is a lifestyle.

Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on.

Christianity is either relevant all the time or useless anytime. It is not just a phase of life; it is life itself.

The biggest challenge [making Pineapple Express] was that we had a comedy budget. We really got excited the more we got into the development of it about blowing stuff up and having shoot outs. That stuff costs money.