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Quotes About Impractical

My new language is taking shape. It is gestalt oriented, rendering it beautifully suited for thought, but impractical for writing or speech.
~ Ted Chiang
I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract.
~ Katharine Hepburn
I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
~ Brit Marling
I accept House of Fraser cannot have 500,000 square feet in Birmingham. Honestly, you would need an Uber to take you round. It's ridiculous.
~ Mike Ashley
The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime - for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.
~ Marquis de Sade
...and leave wishes to those foolish enough to make them.
~ Terri Guillemets
Tým chcem povedaÃ…Â¥, že som ten najnepraktickejÅ¡í ?lovek pod slnkom.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
~ Cecil Beaton
Be daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers.
~ Cecil Beaton
There are a lot of impractical things about owning a Porsche. But they're all offset by the driving experience. It really is unique. Lamborghinis and Ferraris come close. And they are more powerful, but they don't handle like a Porsche.
~ Kevin O'Leary
In the end, though, his insistence that we must imagine Sisyphus as happy is as impractical as it is feculent.
~ Thomas Ligotti
The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable!
~ Oscar Wilde
They could only stare at Esme's shoes and wonder why she as wearing footwear that was so violent and impractical.
~ Lemony Snicket
There's no point considering something which is very unrealistic.
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
And as an artist, as someone who writes stories and tries to make words into beautiful forms, it's vitally important to me, especially in a culture that's forgotten the value of beauty. It's a primary source or inspiration, I guess, when so much of what goes on around you is only about money and big swinging dick capitalism. It's important for blokes to be able to do beautiful stuff, impractical stuff, that adds to life. That's an early life-lesson from surfing.
~ Tim Winton
Cooking practice can be expensive and impractical. If you have the time, you can practice your tennis serve a thousand times a day for a few dollars. Making a thousand omelets a day? That's a different story.
~ Timothy Ferriss
I never understood why people from the 1980s thought there would be flying cars. It just seemed really dangerous and impractical to me, but they all talked about it, so it must have been a thing. Meanwhile, my dream for the future was that it wouldn't involve mass extinction and large-scale water shortages and cannibalism.
~ Dan Chaon
'Enchanted' illustrates how impractical fairy-tale ideals are in the World As We Know It, and yet, Giselle's unabashed optimism always seems to magically find its time and place.
~ Alethea Kontis
I don't see how metaphorical mangoes are going to do us any good,
~ Tui T. Sutherland
It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals. They seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart." —Anne Frank
~ Danielle Steel
Wishes were ever fools
~ William Shakespeare
Utopia, after all, is not a place one can live.
~ Hilary Mantel
At least the hem of the skirt doesn't drag impractically on the floor. I can still run in it as I howl at the moon.
~ Holly Black
thick as a brick but nowhere near as useful.
~ Unknown