Use Quotes - Page 43

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

In combat flying, fancy precision aerobatic work is really not of much use. Instead, it is the rough maneuver which succeeds.

A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.

At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House.

Fashion is a weapon that you can use when you need it.

The most used piece of kit in my kitchen is my saucepan. I use it every morning to cook my porridge in. The least used piece of equipment? I'd say a food mixer. I've never used it, I don't really know what they're for.

Christmas is a good excuse to eat everything.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I freely admit I'm confused. I'm a confused and troubled individual but at the same time...Its Free!

Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?

An object should be judged by whether it has a form consistent with its use.

I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!

I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use

Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with great works rather than having to just see them in museums. People who are buying art at the top of the market as an investment are foolish.

This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?

When the world shoves you around, you just gotta stand up and shove back. It's not like somebody's gonna save you if you start babbling excuses.

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.

I will have one of the cleanest obits of any actress. I never did cheesecake like Ann Sheridan or Betty Grable. I just used my hair.

Nothing is impossible to the mind. All it's guidance and power are available to you. When you fully realize that thought causes all, you will know there are never any limits that you yourself do not impose.

I used to have friends come on tour and work as my drum tech, but they get bummed out when I have to tell them what to do. This time I`m just going to fly them out and let them hang. It`s all good.

I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk.

I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.