Unnecessary Quotes
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.
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And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.
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Once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I have only just thought of it.
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Art is elimination of the unnecessary.
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We have issued financial instruments in the past, and there is a strong demand for them, it is simply unnecessary now.
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The admission of Oriental immigrants who cannot be amalgamated with our people has been made the subject either of prohibitory clauses in our treaties and statutes or of strict administrative regulations secured by diplomatic negotiations. I sincerely hope that we may continue to minimize the evils likely to arise from such immigration without unnecessary friction and by mutual concessions between self-respecting governments.
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Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.
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A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
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A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
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Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter!
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After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.
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So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.
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Regret is unnecessary. Think before you act.
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Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.
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It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.
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I'm not 18 anymore, so I'm not into starting unnecessary beefs. It's tacky.
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Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.
