Useful Quotes

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Acting has been very useful to me.

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.

There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part.

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

I am convinced that in the upcoming chapter of the struggle, I can be more useful to the inevitable change that will soon come to Cuba, to Cuba's freedom, as a private citizen dedicated to helping the heroes within Cuba.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.

All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.

I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.

Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

I'd like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I'd like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.