A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye. Joan Didion
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.C. S. Lewis
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. Louisa May Alcott
How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to provide us with more modest, more genuine things, that had less pretensions: short stories, memoirs, notes, testimonials, or at any rate, books that are open, without a preconceived plan. Italo Calvino
How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to provide us with more modest, more genuine things, that had less pretensions: short stories, memoirs, notes, testimonials, or at any rate, books that are open, without a preconceived plan. Italo Calvino
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.Charles Darwin
I live by Edith Wharton's rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street. Melissa Bank
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes. Louisa May Alcott
Personally, I don't stretch, I don't get massages. Maybe massages would be useful, but I just don't have the time for it. Dean Karnazes
The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure. Anthony Bourdain
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties. Graham Greene
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. Joan Didion
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.Christian Nestell Bovee
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. Frederick Douglass