#useful

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness. ↗

— John Cheever

#discover #life #make #need #sense

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well. ↗

— Lee Child

#grew #i #made #them #things

We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#believe #community #end #exerting #india

Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere. ↗

— Jack Vance

#excursions #fit #i #little #manage

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of. ↗

— Claire Danes

#dreamed #ever #how #more #problems

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs. ↗

— Guy Debord

#ignorance #periods #quotations #useful

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#body #causes #everything #find #first

I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#accent #because #cage #clash #class

Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#certain #certain ways #fame #get #helps

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. ↗

— Henry Ford

#attained #by-product #comes #directly #happiness