Quotes of: Useful-thing Keyword

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Koro: When she was born, that's when things went wrong for us.

Whale Rider

There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

Jack White

I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally.

Sufjan Stevens

The mobile phone is used from when you get up in the morning and is often the last thing you interact with at night.

Jan Chipchase

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

Mortimer Adler

Boredom, that traitorous devil that posseses us to do things sometimes useless, and often stupid.

Apol Lejano-Massebieau

It's neat how God puts things in front of us to get his point across.

Amanda Penland

I don't want to be in magazines everyday, because I don't want people to get used to one thing.

Amanda Seyfried

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.

Bill Ayers

When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.

Vanessa Hudgens

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.

Vince Lombardi

What the poet has to say to the torso of the supposed Apollo, however, is more than a note on an excursion to the antiquities collection. The author's point is not that the thing depicts an extinct god who might be of interest to the humanistically e...

Du mußt dein Leben ändern

The application of this knife, the division of the world into parts and the building of this structure, is something everybody does. All the time we are aware of millions of things around us - these changing shapes, these burning hills, the sound of ...

Robert M. Pirsig

Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around ou...

Kafka on the Shore

When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. And so, laughing and crying, we said good-bye to my grandmother. And when we said goodbye to one grandmother, we said good-bye to all of them. Each funeral was a ...

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

I used to think that when I grew up there wouldn't be so many rules. Back in elementary school there were rules about what entrance you used in the morning, what door you used going home, when you could talk in the library, how many paper towels you ...

Alice in Rapture, Sort of

Furious Styles: What'd you use? Tre Styles: I used the number she gave me... Why you sweating me? I didn't have to use nothing. She said she was on the pill. Furious Styles: How many times do I have I told you, if a girl says she's on the pill, you u...

Boyz n the Hood

Literature keeps presenting the most vicious things to us an entertainment, but what it appeals to is not any pleasure of these things, but the exhilaration of standing apart from them and being able to see them for what they are because they aren't ...

The Educated Imagination

Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal are most general, and are, in turn, most trusted. Stories bind. . . . They are basic to who we are. A story composite...

Pieces of White Shell

Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing, but I don't believe that myself. Because there are too many different ideas on the subject. What we is this: When we die, one of t...

Pet Sematary