Quotes About Practicality

Nothing is more practical than poetry," he says with a quizzical smile. "It teaches us how to be human.

I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of words to describe a curl of the lip, a tilt of the chin, a change in the atmosphere. Done well, novel-writing can combine lyricism with practicality in a way that makes one think of grand tapestries, both functional and beautiful. Fifty years from now, I imagine I'll still be questing after just that right combination of words.

How could you blame Mia's parents for not understanding? They had been born in the wartime years; they'd been raised by parents who'd come of age in the Depression, who threw nothing out, not even moldy food. They were old enough to remember when rags became felt for the war effort, when cans and scrap metal could become bullets and cans of grease explosives. Practicality was baked into their bones. They wasted nothing, especially time.

Practicality was baked into their bones.

Život s ohledem na prakti?nost a pohodlí dosedl na jiskru v jejím nitru jako tlustá, t?žká deka.

A year or two younger than his eminently practical friend, Mr. Bounderby looked older; his seven or eight and forty might have had the seven or eight added to it again, without surprising anybody. He had not much hair. One might have fancied he had talked it off; and that what was left, all standing up in disorder, was in that condition from being constantly blown about by his windy boastfulness.

He had a particular pride in the phrase eminently practical, which was considered to have a special application to him.

Blunt tools are are sometimes found of use, where sharper instruments would fail.

Logic is one thing, and common sense another.

Don't cry over spilt burrito — that's why they invented forks.

The door to safety swings on the hinges of common sense.

Good intentions are useless in the absence of common sense. —JAMI, BAHARISTAN

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. —WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

The hell with the toilet paper. I'm grabbing the the Steaks. I can always wash my ass, I'm feeding my ass.

conservative because "he accepted the need of dealing with things as they were, not as he would have wished them to be."2

Did I want a dog? No. Did I need a dog? Also no. We were six kids running for our lives, not knowing where our next meal was coming from. Could we afford to feed a dog? Wait for it—no.

Rafe was trying to convince an older couple that they needed an extra toilet.

Common sense is always more important than money or even a decent education. The problem is that you can't teach common sense.

No, don't learn at karate schools. They overcharge you for karate uniforms. They make you pay, like, fifty or seventy-five bucks just for a karate uniform, and you don't wear a uniform in everyday life, so why train in one? Most fights take place outdoors, not inside with perfect lighting and mats.

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

One piece of advice: unless you're an electrician, do not wear your mobile on your belt.

Let's talk about a decision that women have to make every morning- Big purse or little purse?

And people in America are very practical people across the political spectrum. Very conservative women want their kids, their daughters taking birth control.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.