Practicals Quotes

• We are sliding into a time of simplification where the practical design of everyday things will be an important demand to consider

  

  Kay Bojesen
  • Design
  • Everyday
  • Simplification

• Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included, Julie, who choose poetry as their vocation. I envy your faith.

  

  Debra Dean
  • Envy
  • Radical
  • Vocation

• I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.

  

  Daniil Kharms
  • Absurd
  • Manifestation
  • Practicals

• Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper.

  

  Erika Slezak
  • Individualism
  • Victoria
  • Gatekeepers

• There are no practical alternatives to air transportation.

  

  Daniel Goldin
  • Alternatives
  • Practicals
  • Transportation

• I try to do everything from thinking about big issues like how a building fits into the larger stream of architectural history to practical issues such as how it feels to navigate your way through its interior.

  

  Paul Goldberger
  • Trying
  • Feels
  • Building

• If somebody says to me, 'Oh, you're gonna get married and you'll never be attracted to anybody else again,' I'm like, right, sure. It's just not practical to me on an emotional level. Just because I'm married, I'm not dead.

  

  Sean Young
  • Emotional
  • Married
  • Levels

• My course has never been about triangulation, and neither, really, is Bill Clinton's. It's not - it's about applying your values to the future in a practical and unblinking way, and that is an ideological view that is every bit as strong as views from the left or from the right.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Strong
  • Values
  • Views

• What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the “life of the mind”: thinking pursued not instrumentally, for the sake of practical goals, but simply for the sake of knowing and understanding.

  

  Gary Gutting
  • Thinking
  • Understanding
  • Intellectual

• Science is knowledge certain and evident in itself, or by the principles from which it is deducted, or with which it is certainly connected. It is subjective, as existing in the mind; objective, as embodied in truths; speculative, as leading to do something, as in practical science.

  

  William Fleming
  • Science
  • Principles
  • Connected

• Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.

  

  Rufus Choate
  • Important
  • Mathematics
  • Quantity

• Filled with great advice, practical support, and steamy, imaginative suggestions for how to have an exciting, challenging, satisfying sex life.

  

  Karen X. Tulchinsky
  • Support
  • Exciting
  • Imaginative

• I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Children
  • Practicals
  • Checkouts

• Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or nation.

  

  William Fleming
  • Philosophy
  • Nations
  • Currents

• it's just that in C++ and the like, you don't trust anybody, and in CLOS you basically trust everybody. The practical result is that thieves and bums use C++ and nice people use CLOS.

  

  Erik Naggum
  • People
  • Results
  • Practicals

• Money is to Everything as an Aeroplane is to Australia. The aeroplane isn't Australia, but it remains the only practical way we know of reaching it. So perhaps, metonymically, the aeroplane is Australia after all.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Australia
  • Reaching
  • Practicals

• The delineation between the actor and his part is a practical matter. When the camera runs, you want the actor to be the character.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Character
  • Matter
  • Actors

• Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Science
  • Learning
  • Sex

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