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Quotes About Pointless

Media rule the incompetent minds and pointless believers.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Is there any shame to sleeping? There are news reports on all the time about how sleep deprived we are and how dangerous it is with drivers falling asleep at the wheel and machine operators pushing the wrong buttons. I'm actually performing a public service by sleeping. Maybe I'm worried that they'll think I'm lazy. At three o'clock in the morning, however, I figured subterfuge was pointless.
~ Eileen Rendahl
Causality is a pointless superstition. These days it would take more than one book to persuade anyone of that.
~ Arif Ahmed
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
~ Aristophanes
Asking presidential candidates whether they support or would change past foreign policy decisions is the most common line of questioning among members of the media. It's also the most pointless.
~ Pete Hoekstra
Quality without results is pointless. Results without quality is boring.
~ Johan Cruyff
We immortals aren't misers - we don't hoard! Such things are pointless.
~ Margaret Atwood
With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.
~ Andrew S. Tanenbaum
The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless
~ Bram Cohen
Why was everyone so interested in her now? When it was too late to change anything? What was the point?
~ Anne Cassidy
They couldn't see how maddening death really was, how colossally pointless in every way.
~ Scott Westerfeld
All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There's no escaping the inevitable.
~ John Cusack
The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat.
~ Mason Cooley
Evanlyn opened her mouth to scream. But the horror of the moment froze the sound in her throat and she crouched, openmouthed, as death approached her. It was odd, she thought, that they had dragged her here, left her overnight and then decided to kill her. It seem such a pointless way to die.
~ John Flanagan
Once again Jacob was one who had gone to great lengths to secure his own well-being, but his efforts proved pointless.
~ John H. Sailhamer
Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.
~ Gunter Grass
It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
~ Rachel Johnson
I have no interest in jumping out of an airplane or any of the things people do for thrills, to push their limits and all that. To me, that seems foolish, and there's no point.
~ Anderson Cooper
It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.
~ Saint Jerome
When you want to have entertainment, it must be a waste of time. I don't like that. I don't like improvisation being pointless.
~ Keith Johnstone
For someone who is happy, celebration is yet another channel or instrument through which happiness may course. For someone who is not, celebration is a tedious parody of existence that seems pointless and false.
~ Mark Helprin
Love is pointless. It's the same sad sad story of with the same inevitable ending of miserable deterioration.
~ Arnold Arre
Explaining just what I had hoped the story to say is very difficult. I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.
~ Shirley Jackson
Vengeance is pointless, but certain men do not have a place in the world we sought to construct
~ Simone de Beauvoir