Quotes About Convenience

I think that I would find automobiles a little more interesting if they carried their own parking space with them.

It would be convenient if one could redesign the past, change a few things here and there, like certain acts of outrageous stupidity, but if one could do that, the past would always be in motion. It would never settle down finally to days of solid marble.

We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than this. Who was it said that memory is what we thought we'd forgotten? And it ought to be obvious to us that time doesn't act as a fixative, rather as a solvent. But it's not convenient--- it's not useful--- to believe this; it doesn't help us get on with our lives; so we ignore it.

We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than this. Who was it said that memory is what we thought we'd forgotten? And it ought to be obvious to us that time doesn't act as a fixative, rather as a solvent. But it's not convenient—it's not useful—to believe this; it doesn't help us get on with our lives; so we ignore it.

Me mam, bless her soul, tol' me tha' was the worst thing ye could be to a man—convenient.

If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that little light? Put the torch there on the nightstand.

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

Mobile isn't just a media channel, it's her constant companion that makes juggling easier. It makes her feel like a better mom.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it.

Pursuing money is tantamount to pursuing personal convenience. Pursuing personal convenience is an inconvenience to God's greater purpose for mankind.

I have always found that it is far more convenient to be rich rather than to be poor.

Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.

In New York, I like it when you can get bagels at 3 in the morning.

The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother's convenience.

Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.

It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car.

I travel fairly lightly because you have to these days. I always take a laptop and an iPod so I can watch movies and listen to music. And my Gameboy. That's a good time-killer.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity.

To think, we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.

My life will end someday, but it will end at my convenience.

The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.

I like the philosophy of the sandwich, as it were. It typifies my attitude to life, really. It's all there, it's fun, it looks good, and you don't have to wash up afterwards.