Pointless Quotations

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses.

Asking me why I did or didn't do anything is generally pointless. How do I know? And asking me what I'll do in the future is even less rewarding.

If you don't have the smoking gun, then it's pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up.

It was the winter of war, in 1939. It felt completely pointless to try to create pictures... I suddenly felt an urge to write down something that was to begin with 'Once upon a time.'

Whenever I see pointless use of special effects, I reach for something else.

I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.

When was the last time you wanted to say it all to the right person? To have it all come out right, to surprise yourself at how together you could be. When was the last time you ever met someone who made you want to give it all to them? I mean give yourself to them. Where you couldn't express yourself enough - like you wanted to cut off one of your arms to be understood. That's it - you would cut your head off to have someone understand you. You know how pointless that one is. You know how many times you've smashed yourself to bits on the rocks.

'Minute to Win It' is a variation on a game show from the 1950s called 'Beat the Clock,' in which contestants won washing machines and fox stoles by doing such pointless stunts as catching a tennis ball in a paper cup or knocking a hat off one's wife's head with a whipped-cream spritzer.

I feel like I'm hopefully really on the verge of breaking through here. It would make the last two years that I spent over here pointless to go back to Europe full time this year.

I don't think it really enters your mind, ... You control what you can control. You go out and play well and that's all you can do. It's pointless to sit and think why is this happening or why is that happening. You go out and do what you can do. The rest of it should take care of itself.

Hunts are determined to keep going until this pointless and prejudiced legislation is repealed or replaced,

I always thought the golden rule was pointless because it could always be refined in so many ways. In the past few years, Britain has gone on a very feckless spending spree when every other country has embarked on fiscal consolidation.

If we look at the nation that President Bush leads, it also behaves in many ways like an addict. The United States is a gigantic John Candy of a country, straining its oversized elasticated pants from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The country is addicted to more or less everything, constantly craving greater and greater quantities of petrol, electricity, pointless sports, empty patriotism, fatty hormone-crammed meat, gigantic pedestrian-crushing four-wheel drive trucks, ever more baseball caps with nonsense written on them and unquestioning obedience from every nation on the planet.

I think to design for a grand total less than 300 would be impractical, ... We could fill a smaller facility up within months if the judges start sentencing the way they need to and should Å  We would be overcrowded within days of opening a new facility, and it's pointless to spend all of this money and be right back where we started.

It is pointless to discuss today who will run and how.

Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.

I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless.

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.

It would be just as pointless to oppose the international use of English today as it would have been to oppose the worldwide use of French in the 18th century.

But on a course like that it was like an Indy car circuit. You could just sit at the back and do nothing and it was kind of pointless to ride on the front, but that?s what we do for training.

Actually, I think that a lot of the interviews and acoustic sessions and other things that artists fill their time with are really pointless and suck the energy out of the artist.

Prayer is communication. If prayer is boring or pointless then the relationship is dry.

Is this kind of pointless squabbling really what we want to see? We're talking about electing the president of the United States.

It's pointless talking about playing Roger now. I have to get there first.

It's pointless to talk to Fed members about economics because they are academics who believe in money-printing. Some of them believe they didn't print enough, and so with these kinds of people, it is like running to the pope. What do you want to tell them?

It's pointless to train our students in certain disciplines if the employers in the marketplace have no need for those disciplines.

Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life

I really don't have an expectation. I found that expectations really get in the way. I don't make that choice. I don't decide how many carries I will have, therefore it's pointless for me to have expectations about it.

A friend of mine had died, and I went for an audition. It was weird and cathartic: the producer was very excited about the piece, but my brain wasn't working, and it all seemed really pointless and fickle. I told them I didn't want to be there any more, and left. It was the most terrifying and empowering audition experience I've had.

Life is pointless...and that is God's greatest gift.

For example, one of the more common ones is if a guy races you really hard, and it seems pointless at the time, then next time when he's in a position that he needs a break, you don't cut him one. That's sort of the main one that I probably deal with most often.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

It's almost pointless to even write a check for that.

It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.

Losing composure is pointless.

It is pointless to believe what you see, if you only see what you believe.

Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.

The pointless snide remarks of hammerheaded sharks

I'm not going to drag it out or make a point, because points are pointless.

The more comprehensible the universe becomes the more pointless it seems.

I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.

Almost every war ends, properly, with its veterans feeling deceived and pointless and gullible, with their being persuaded that all participants were equally vile.

Vitriolic is a needless and malign attack on something, excessive attack on something. It is a rather pointless thing to do.

There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.