Useless Quotes
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I don't make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am compelled to violate the scope of any outline or plan; it is as if the writing does not want me to know what is about to happen.
Leslie Marmon Silko
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You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.
Walker Evans
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The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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The past is useless. That explains why it is past.
Wright Morris
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You want useless, you have come to the right guy. I can be useless for hours at a time. Weeks even. I'm currently closing in on a month of being totally useless, which is by way of being a personal best.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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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
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Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up magnificently-and a good half of it is palpably useless.
H. L. Mencken
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Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.
Victor Hugo
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Memmius would only be useless to him for a short time, but that he would remain useless to himself and the Republic forever.
Scipio Africanus
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Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.
Victor Hugo
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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.
John Calvin