Use Quotes - page 4

It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements. (Helena Bonham Carter)

By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.

Donald Knuth

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

Margaret Mead

I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.

Donald Rumsfeld

I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.

Hashemi Rafsanjani

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

William Tecumseh Sherman

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it, necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

Robert McNamara

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Dale Carnegie

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Ernest Hemingway

Sanity is madness put to good use.

George Santayana

Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power? (Andrea Dworkin)

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

Andrea Dworkin

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

Margaret Fuller

I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance.

Imelda Marcos

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

Guy Debord

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

Vannevar Bush

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Galileo Galilei

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde

My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.

Paddy Ashdown

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding. (George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax)

I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there.

Mickey Spillane

Martyrs, cher ami, must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood never.

Albert Camus

What is the use of being elected or re-elected, unless you stand for something?

Grover Cleveland

Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."

Henrik Ibsen

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