Quotes About Useless

I asked for Nigel Manderson. The bartender didn't blink. I knew this was useless. I turned and shouted out, "Which one of you is Nigel Manderson?" A man wearing a baroque ruffled white shirt with squared-off shoulders raised his glass. He looked like he'd just walked out of a Spandau Ballet video. "Cheers, mate." The

passionless good ideas are not only useless, they are a liability.

Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.

Pero, si se me permite formular una anodina teoria general, en nuestra vida imperfecta las cosas inutiles son, en cierta medida, necesarias.

reading too much useless information makes you 46% less likely to think clearly

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

It often happens, with regard to new inventions, that one part of the general public finds them useless and another part considers them to be impossible. When it becomes clear that the possibility and the usefulness can no longer be denied, most agree that the thing was fairly easy to discover and that they knew it was significant. —Abraham Edelcrantz, Treatise on Telegraphs (1796)

But what good was this theoretical rubbish?

Ä°nsan etraf?na rahats?zl?k veriyorsa hiçbir iÅŸe yaram?yor demektir.

Those who believe that... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that the whole law is useless.

In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.

For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless, and then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.

As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You've taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.

This is the typical fallacy on which all of CONSUMER AMERICA is based. Some piece of useless crap will make people like you.

imagined my character as a plate or shirt that had been manufactured incorrectly and was therefore useless.

I had a character disorder. When I got my diagnosis it didn't sound serious, but after a while it sounded more ominous than other people's. I imagined my character as a plate or shirt that had been manufactured incorrectly and was therefore useless.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

I am helpless as the sea at the end of her string. I am restless. Restless and useless. I, too, create corpses. --from Three Women, written March 1962

A usted le parece que en realidad somos dos, el de la izquierda y el de la derecha? ¿Uno útil y el otro inservible?

Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed, fingering my useless map.

Next day he proved the point that he was always singularly useless unless some daredevil escapade was called for.

Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.

The religions in my portfolio weren't useless after all , he thought, the power flowing from him and remaking the world. None of them were. They weren't all true. But they all had truth.