X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Tag Name "Pointless" (182)

Page 7 of 8
Filter & Style
Image
Everything useful in mathematics has been devised for a purpose. Even if you don't know it, the guy who did it first, he knew what he was doing. Banach didn't just develop Banach spaces for the sake of it. He wanted to put many spaces under one heading. Without knowing the examples, the whole thing is pointless.
Michael Atiyah
Image
There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.
Stephen King
Image
The selfish and usually pointless approach is to try to get both done simultaneously - accomplish your work at hand while begging forgiveness of those close to you while you're basically working in front of them during what could've been specifically 'quality time.'
Bob Saget
Image
A philosopher once asked, Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human? Pointless, really...Do the stars gaze back? Now that's a question.
Neil Gaiman
Image
You can certainly go to war about it, but to me it seems pointless.
Joy Browne
Image
I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.
Isabelle Eberhardt
Image
Running my hands really fast up and down the fretboard... I mean, anybody can do that. It's the Guitar Olympics, and I can't think of anything more pointless.
The Edge
Image
In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Image
With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Image
There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.
Jon Krakauer
Image
The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had been leading a life which was a trifle too pointless and a trifle too full of guilt and my gullet was close to nausea with the empty promises of an empty liberal center.
Norman Mailer
Image
The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
Kurt Vonnegut
Image
Don't hold grudges it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion. .
John Milton
Image
If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
Andy Goldsworthy
Image
The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.
Francoise Sagan
Image
It was an addiction. A pointless, self-destructive addiction. But really, is there any other kind?
Rachel Vincent
Image
Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.
Daniel H. Wilson
Image
All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths each is absurd each is a small, pointless death. Psychoanalysis cannot tolerate happy endings it casts them off the way the body's immunological system casts off transplanted organs.
Janet Malcolm
Image
What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?
Terry Brooks
Image
Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.
Kelsey Grammer
Image
Stay positive, all other choices are pointless punishments to your psyche.
Joe Peterson
Image
I hate online bullying. Those little comment boxes can brim with the most vicious, acidic, and pointless remarks.
Alexa Chung
Image
Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are... You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time.
Norm MacDonald
Image
It's pointless to go against digital because sooner or later you won't be able to do anything else.
Mathieu Demy
Previous
Next