Quotes About Miscellaneous

Lots of kitchens have a "catch-all" drawer. What's in here? It's always a surprise. Soy sauce packets from carryout, rubber bands, pennies, matches, pushpins, a stray refrigerator magnet. I'm only going to say this once: No. Junk. Drawer. Do I make myself clear?

When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past."

I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.

If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.

While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.

I file this away under Misc. Facts about M.

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.

Manhattan is a narrow island surrounded by various miscellaneous items.

It was the word for a disquiet not otherwise definable, it referred to a miscellaneous crowd of things in her head, debris in a muddy water of the brain. The frantumaglia was mysterious, it provoked mysterious actions, it was the source of all suffering not traceable to a single obvious cause.

I have a lot of random hobbies.

Englishmen are so very miscellaneous, that that which has REALLY convinced a great and varied majority of them for the present may fairly be assumed to be likely to continue permanently to convince them. One sort might easily fall into a temporary and erroneous fanaticism, but all sorts simultaneously are very unlikely to do so.

The British Empire is a miscellaneous aggregate, and each bit of the aggregate brings its bit of business to the House of Commons.

All utopias are depressing because they leave no room for chance, for difference, for the 'miscellaneous'.

Oooh, there's a Ziploc baggie with a broken barrette, four pencils that are missing erasers, and some decomposing Easter chocolate (do not under any circumstances eat the choc—oops, too late).

Un beau carré de gruyère, apporté dans un journal, gardait imprimé: 'faits divers' sur sa pâte onctueuse

different. Often used unnecessarily. 'He plays milkmaid to more than 50 different species of poisonous snake' (Observer); 'The phenomenally successful Rubik Cube, which has 43,252,002,274,489,856,000 different permutations but only one solution' (Sunday Times); '[He] published at least five different books on grammar' (Simon, Paradigms Lost). Frequently, as in each of these examples, it can be deleted without loss.

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end. This is one reason why college degrees are not valued more highly. They represent nothing but miscellaneous knowledge.

As knowledge is acquired it must be organized and put into use, for a definite purpose, through practical plans. Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end. This is one reason why college degrees are not valued more highly. They represent nothing but miscellaneous knowledge.

Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

and on the floor of a goatherd's hut there are all sorts of things that do not belong to a dress.

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.