Uses Quotes

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals. (Larry Bird)

Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?

Stanisław Jerzy Lec

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Eric Hoffer

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

Friedrich Schlegel

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.

François Fénelon

Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.

Phyllis Schlafly

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Andrew Lang

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.

Bill Gates

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

William Shakespeare

In a mind all logic is like a knife blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Johannes Kepler

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

John Updike

The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man - whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them.

Jane Goodall

The street finds its own uses for things.

William Gibson

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

Vin Scully

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.

Joan Didion

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

Richard Feynman

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

Scott Adams

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer. (Dave Barry)

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Mark Twain

Hence, water ought by no means to be conducted in lead pipes, if we want to have it wholesome. That the taste is better when it comes from clay pipes may be proved by everyday life, for though our tables are loaded with silver vessels, yet everybody uses earthenware for the sake of purity of taste.

Vitruvius

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.

Michael Ondaatje

The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.

Aubrey de Grey

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