(85 quotes found)
“All art is quite useless.”
Oscar Wilde
“On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
Anais Nin
“There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than our own”
Cyril Joad
“Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?”
Lord Byron
“It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.”
Tris Speaker
“Well, one doesn't try to hold Cass and Denny and Michelle together. It's a useless task to start with. You just sort of stay out of the way and let things roll as they can.”
John Phillips
“I'm almost convinced that dieting is totally useless.”
Cris Slentz
“What is well, let him call well, or let him say well only, let him not engage in a useless enmity or dispute with anybody.”
Guru Nanak
“Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire -- in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?”
