There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe.

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.

I've spent so much time with iambic pentameter that I can now recognize it when I hear it in conversation or a movie - it's like a weird, useless superpower.

Terrorists are overjoyed when we shut down our freedoms and turn ourselves into a police state and when we retaliate, swatting the Middle East with useless bombs or rounding up the wrong suspects and locking them up without charge.

Somewhere along the way I realized that I enjoyed making useless things a lot more than well-finished products.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry.

If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

Generally, successful fads have some kind of play value, like the Frisbee, Slinky, Silly Putty, my Wallwalker. They're generally inexpensive items, impulse items. They tend to be rather useless items, too. They provide a few minutes of amusement.

I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.

Thanks to social media, we've also been able to show ourselves as we are. In the end, masks are useless. You have to be real.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

In my opinion, any navy less than that which would give us the habitual command of our own coast and seas would be little short of useless.

Accusations are useless.

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.