#useless

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#best #books #care #characters #driven

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly. ↗

— Democritus

#blindness #excepting #folly #gifts #give

All art is quite useless. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#quite #useless

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. ↗

— Esther Williams

#gift #passage #share #time #unless

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#how #learned #live #manner #perfectly

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#any #intention #purpose #senseless #useless

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. ↗

— George Ade

#dear #friend #may #near #relative

The most useless are those who never change through the years. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#most #never #those #through #useless

Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless. ↗

— Alton Brown

#basic #culinary #molecular #sound #technique

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. ↗

— Albert Camus

#desire #dictate #his #hope #live