Meaningless Quotes

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and so meaningless. My characters don't learn to love each other or themselves.

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I think you will find out that it's meaningless.

Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.'

I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.

The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.

All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless.

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.