Quotes About Meaning

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

The world forgets about people who are not useful.

The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

My idea of art is, you write something that makes people feel so strongly that they get some conviction about who they want to be or what they want to do. It's morally useful not in a political way, but it makes your heart bigger; it's emotionally and spiritually empowering.

While it may be disappointing, I have to confess to people who ask for my insights on the meaning of it all that astronomy doesn't provide any clearly useful data on matters of sin and souls.

I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it's like art, it's like umm, music, it's aesthetics, it's like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe.

I think therapy can be very revealing and useful for actors. You start to dig deep and understand certain mechanisms that you hadn't been aware of before and, you know, meanings behind things.

I have planted my flag in my comedy being useful for social change.

Fear is good and useful when it's deployed on the side of common sense.

The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.

All art is quite useless.

'He means well' is useless unless he does well.

There is nothing useless to men of sense.

Everyone loves feeling comfortable. But it's actually completely useless.

I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.

Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless.

The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless.

I think women, especially, are bored of blokes being useless.

Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. It's the only way that I can do anything, even if I'm quite useless. It's the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.

I think without writing I would feel completely useless.

The Christopher Robin who appears in so many of the poems is not always me. This was where my name, so totally useless to me personally, came into its own: it was a wonderful name for writing poetry round.

I think my cultural work is more important than the adventures I did. The adventures are not important for human beings. It's the conquering of the useless.

Some of the scripts I hear are completely useless. Sometimes, they're copies of very bad Hollywood films.