Quotes of: Useful-thing Keyword

We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.

Carl Honore

Life is painful and messed up. It gets complicated at the worst of times, and sometimes you have no idea where to go or what to do. Lots of times people just let themselves get lost, dropping into a wide open, huge abyss. But that's why we have to ke...

Alysha Speer

I relax by looking at things and reading about things. Even the simplest thing can reveal a great deal about the world around us. It relaxes me greatly to sit back with my feet up and look around my study at the everyday things that surround me.

Henry Petroski

Whenever socialism appears it destroys at least one thing: diversity. Everything has to be "the best", but in reality as we know best things are scarse.. Let me remind you again, that for the Reds, "best" things are these things that they consider "t...

Janusz Korwin-Mikke

The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information transcending our experience, it enables us ...

Lectures and Essays by the Late William Kingdon Clifford, F.R.S.

All terrible things are more terrible if they give us no chance of retrieving a blunder—either no chance at all, or only one that depends on our enemies and not ourselves. Those things are also worse which we cannot, or cannot easily, help. Speakin...

The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle

We were both holding on to this thing, this monster between us. And now that I saw it, I could almost feel it hovering there, tangible. It was wrapping its stickiness around our throats - and we were helping it. We were grabbing on to it tightly, bel...

Jaimal Yogis

People at different stages of their lives are doing different things, and they're all using Google.

Susan Wojcicki

We love certain things because they are longing for us.

Debasish Mridha

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Charlie Chaplin

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

Willie Aames

I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.

Jackson Rathbone

The only thing holding us back is ourselves.

Brad Henry

It is said that the things that annoy us the most are the things that we are probably called to resolve.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!

Romola Garai

Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.

Aleksey Igudesman

I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character.

Andrew Lincoln

A lot of women use pregnancy as an excuse to let their bodies go, and that's the worst thing.

Tracy Anderson

It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn't th...

Jingo

The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days later, we try again and find that the same thing has happ...

The Tao of Pooh

...the past is in us, and not behind us. Things are never over.

The Turning: Stories