#useless

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#useless #death

Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless. ↗

— Alton Brown

#basic #culinary #molecular #sound #technique

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. ↗

— Albert Camus

#desire #dictate #his #hope #live

I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#complete #example #extravagance #far #for example

I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#decided #feel #hoping #i #i can

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#against #attacks #continue #feel #futile

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

— Karl Marx

#people #production #results #things #too

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. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#elements #fact #facts #ideas #matters

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#body #considered #culture #define #forgotten

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#gone #higher #him #his #history