Useless Objects Quotes

#1. I own a well-used library card and not much else, though it is true I live in a grand house full of expensive, useless objects.

E. Lockhart

#2. Useless and precious objects. Taking up space. Taking up time.

Maira Kalman

#3. I'm surprised he doesn't reach for a wet nap to rid his hands of my general poorness.

Victoria Scott

#4. The first religious experience that I can remember is getting under the nursery table to pray that the dancing mistress might be dead before we got to the Dancing Class.

Gwen Raverat

#5. There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.

John Calvin

#6. The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

Brian Sibley

#7. Sometimes the children asked Eddie to lift them over his head, and when Eddie complied, he saw the mothers' sad smiles: He guessed it was the right lift but the wrong pair of arms.

Mitch Albom

#8. A constant repetition and a boundless incongruity of useless but indestructible objects.

Marcel Proust

#9. There's no way of knowing in advance what will get into your work. One collects all the shiny objects that catch the fancy - a great array of them. Some of them you think are utterly useless. I have a large collection of curios of that kind, and every once in a while I need one of them.

Margaret Atwood

#10. One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

Nathanael Emmons

#11. The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.

Alan Coren

#12. Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. If you take the view that one of the chief objects in life is to remain in loving relationships with other people, straight-line power becomes useless.

Robert Farrar Capon

#14. So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.

George Orwell

#15. <3. You think that looks like a heart? If you do, that's only because you've never seen scrotum.

David Levithan

#16. I feel like most of the objects coming through the ports are pretty useless. It sort of speaks to this larger point of how much we're actually taking in versus how much we really need.

Mary Mattingly

#17. Every time we choose courage we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little braver and a little kinder.

Brene Brown

#18. Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.

Chuck Palahniuk