(1553 quotes found)
“The door to the cabinet is to be opened using a minimum of 15 Kleenexes.”
Howard Hughes
“And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart,/ And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart.”
Edward Lear
“One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world”
Ann Radcliffe
“He had a sensation of anxiety and shame, a sensitivity acute beyond usefulness, as if the nervous system, flayed of its old hide of social usage, must record every touch of pain.”
John Updike
“The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.”
Oscar Wilde
“I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.”
Charlie Parker
“Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship”
Dorothy Parker
“I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection”
Charles Darwin
“You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself one and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.”
Claire Danes
“If you aren't rich you should always look useful.”
Louis Ferdinand Celine
