Quotes About Practicality

Being practical always is not always practical. sometimes you need to let it go, give yourself freedom to be silly too.

We should always be realistic about our needs, steer clear of this over indulgence & self imposed poverty nonsense.

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

No matter how beautiful the shoes are, they still have to go on the ground.

Common sense is quite rare.

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which I also keep handy.

Styles come and go, design goes on forever: solving communication problems with new tools applied to the same old common sense.

We will have to cut our coats to suit our cloth, and wait and see.

What is practicality but one moment betrayed for the next? —

Girl, it's an umbrella, not a Lamborghini

I Try to design things that someone like myself would like to use which is that it just works, and you don't have to think about it at all

You don't need to like [a gun] to know you got to have it. I don't like gettin' a colonoscopy every five years, but I grit my teeth and drop my drawers and get it done just the same.

Sometimes a girl who doesn't like guns is nevertheless obliged to carry one if she's got any common sense at all.

if he'd learned anything in his four-year marriage it was that women were rarely practical when it came to matters of the heart.

Il (l'homme) ne te donnera jamais que ce qui ne lui est bon à rien, et te demandera toujours ce qui lui est utile.

Besides, what would you do with the body, if you killed him? the logical side of my mind inquired. He wouldn't fit in the cupboard, let alone the hidey-hole.

I might dream, but I am no dreamer.

A car just gets me from A to B. I really don't spend that much time driving.

I've learned I would rather be effective over right.

I don't engage in hypotheticals.

Well, I'm not that much into ideals. I can't see the point of it.

The Christian of academic tastes accuses his brother of undue emotionalism, of shallow argumentation, of cheap methods of work. On the other hand, your practical man is ever loud in his denunciation of academic indifference to the dire needs of humanity. The scholar is represented either as a dangerous dissemination of doubt, or else as a man whose faith is a faith without works.

Knowledge isn't power until it is applied.

There ought to be at least as much common sense about living and dying as there is about going to the grocery store and buying a loaf of bread.