Quotes About Practicality

The real question here is what happens to you, Gunther. In many ways you're a useful fellow to have around. Like a bent coat hanger in a toolbox, you're not something that was ever designed for a specific job, but you do manage to come in useful sometimes.

One survival technique is a lack of wastefulness; the African puts everything to use.

Most of filmmaking is common sense. If you stay on your toes and think about how to do a thing, it's right there.

She knew what my mother did not: either you want a clean floor or you want to use a mop, but you can't have both.

Der erste Schritt zum Überleben ist ein offenes Auge dafür, was zur Hand ist und was als Nächstes getan werden muss. Wer in müßiger Hoffnung auf Hilfe wartet, der vertut sein Leben mit Träumerei.

Once you lose the discipline of functionality as a design guidepost, the imagination runs amok.

I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.

There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.

It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract.

There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.

El Sufi es uno que obra como los demás, cuando es necesario. Es también uno que hace lo que los otros no pueden, cuando es lo indicado.

Any man who can't appreciate a classic pickup ain't worth his weight in salt.

I never understood why you would ever feel the need to shoot the fish in the barrel. I mean, they're in a barrel, you've already caught them. The hard work's done, they can't escape. So if you want them dead, just drain the water out. Why bring guns into it?

My dad was pretty old school. I've had a job since I can remember, and it's not like he was like, 'Hey, what kind of car do you want?' My first car was a '91 Ford Crown Victoria that was $1,000. And I had to buy every car after that. I had to do it all.

Amanda Briars was a beautiful woman masquerading as a plain one…she was funny, intelligent, brave, practical, and, most of all, interesting.

From what I've seen so far," Devon remarked, "it would be far more sensible to set fire to this rotting heap of timber rather than to try and repair it." Kathleen's eyes widened. "Eversby Priory is historic. It's four hundred years old." "So is the plumbing, I'll wager.

As you yourself once said, Devon is carrying a heavy burden. There's nothing in this world I want badly enough to be willing to do what my brother is doing. Which means I have no choice but to support him." Kathleen nodded glumly. "Now you're being practical.

Common sense is the best sense I know of

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

Men exist because a vibrator can't fix a flat tire. On second thought, I should just buy a AAA card...

Néha úgy vélem, épp emiatt nem haladunk úgy, mint a nemzet többi része. Az emberek olyan sok idÅ't töltenek távol a munkájuktól mások meglincselése miatt, és olyan sok pénzt költenek kötélre meg kerozinra, meg arra, hogy elÅ'zetesen leigyák magukat, meg a többi szükséges dologra, hogy a gyakorlati dolgokra nem marad se túl sok pénz, se munkaóra.

Don't Keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason

Dreams are all very well but are not known to pay the mortgage.

When I die my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills.