No Use Quotes

I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the people to invent my pictures, and I can work more freely when they are there.

The music dictates to me which instrument I use. I'm basically waiting for orders as it were.

I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather than paintings.

I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.

I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.

I've only got a fraction of the energy I once had, but I think I probably use it better.

Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.

Being young and being first-round picks and everything, people look up to you and look for you to lead. It's something Brett and I are able to do, and we can use each other to help each other out.

I do use my music to entertain myself, as indeed I use other people's music.

He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.

The use of fetuses as organ and tissue donors is a ticking time bomb of bioethics.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments.

Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.

It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.

The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.

The Essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use it.

Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.

Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure.

These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.

Apologies are seldom of any use.

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense

Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?

For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.

What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.

It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

I think people are quite surprised that the handwriting I use in my drawings and paintings is my own handwriting. They're slightly shocked when I write them a letter.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

Write relentlessly, until you find your voice. Then, use it.

The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it.

You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.

Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others.

I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact.

The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.

If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.

I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase. For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.

Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.

A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.

Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.

A lot of bands mature, which means they get square; they start delivering messages. Hey, you got a message, use Western Union.

Your promise means more than the words you use to give it.

Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity

I witness with pleasure the supreme achievement of memory, which is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to its fold the suspended and wandering tonalities of the past.

The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.