Quotes About Utility

life has always in store analogous phenomena which perhaps one will not escape. Sympathy one must have; but this sympathy is genuine only when one knows oneself deeply and knows that what has happened to one man may happen to all. Only thus can one be of some utility to oneself and to others.

Montaigne said long ago: Were I not to follow the straight road for its straightness, I should follow it for having found by experience that in the end it is commonly the happiest and most useful track. The doctrine of interest rightly understood is not then new, but among the Americans of our time it finds universal acceptance; it has become popular there; you may trace it at the bottom of all their actions, you will remark it in all they say.

The only nations which deny the utility of provincial liberties are those which have fewest of them; in other words, those who are unacquainted with the institution are the only persons who passed censure upon it.

Until then her only kisses had taken place in a closet during parties at Helene's house. The orderly took her into a closet as well, a utility closet where there were mops and buckets and folded sheets and towels. She wasn't speaking then. She tried to tell him no, but the word sounded like a sob.

Me atrevería a decir que un hechicero puede llegar a ser útil y demás, pero, o sea, ¿siempre tienen que actuar de una manera tan puñeteramente rara?

You could never have too many knives in Logen's experience,

Seemed that Logen's father had been right. You can never have too many knives.

The more you kill, the better you get at it. And the better you get at killing, the less use you are for anything else.

You can never have too many knives." "No? What if you fall in a river and can't swim for all that iron?

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

I always know where the scissors are.

We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.

We often despise what is most useful to us.

These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.

People buy products, and they want to understand what those things are and how they are applicable to their life.

You only care about the things that you can use, and therefore arrange them in the following order: Money, supremely useful; intellect, rather useful; imagination, of no use at all.

Docs? Oh, you mean the stuff you wipe up coffee with?

I don't drive for pleasure. It's purely to get from A to B.

A car for every purse and purpose.

Form follows function.

Make sure you aren't sacrificing function for fashion. A great shoe has both.

If something is functional, you no longer think about it. I care about how meaningful things are.

I've always liked working with an archetypal design, something functional.

We always correct people who say, 'You're trying to make this look better.' Well yes, we want it to look better, but that's easy. The look and the function are one and the same. They are not separate. It looks good because it functions beautifully. That message is very hard.