quotes about Unnecessary Things

last updated: November 28, 2023

The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things.
-- Donald A. Norman

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If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life.
-- Wumen Huikai

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I just wanna perform, I wanna get back on the scene, I wanna do all the festivals and stuff like that. I don't necessarily want to do all the bullshit that comes with it, like tons and tons of interviews, unnecessary things and all that.
-- Lady Sovereign

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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“Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.”

Source : "As GOP Races On, Puerto Rico Could Be Battleground". www.npr.org. February 28, 2012.
“It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.”

Source : JOHN BARTH (1956). “THE FLOATING OPERA”
“The wisdom and spirit of Churchill not only saved Britain from the Third Reich but saved Western civilization from a Nazi Dark Ages when no other nation was willing to take up that defense. Churchill was the greatest military, political and spiritual leader of the 20th century.”
“I'm telling you, you can't compare Saudi Arabia to other countries.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am Charles Mingus, half black man, not even white enough to pass for nothing but black. I am Charles Mingus, a famed jazzman, but not famed enough to make a living in this society.”
“The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.”

Source : A Fragment on Government preface (1776). Bentham said that he derived this formula from either Joseph Priestley or Cesare Beccaria; Beccaria is the more likely. If Priestley was the source, then Bentham was paraphrasing him because the phrase is not found in Priestley's writings. See Beccaria 1; Hutcheson 1
“If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.”
“Steve Trevor was dull and boring and I didn't like him much so I disposed of him.”
“There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.”

Source : "Willem Dafoe: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. February 20, 2012.
“A lot of meetings are held to arrange when to have meetings. ... Meetings today are usually called conferences to make them sound more significant.”

Source : Jilly Cooper (2012). “How To Survive From Nine To Five”, p.42, Random House