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I have a utilitarian approach to dressing; as long as I quite like it and it covers me up, I don't care what it is. — Jo Brand

The dining hall in our section of campus was like something out of an Ayn Rand novel: big, utilitarian, and impersonal. — Kirstie Collins Brote

Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life. — Aristotle.

It was over, and I knew that. But you don't love someone for almost two years and then turn it off overnight ... — Kiera Cass

I think that in a lot of readers' minds the essay is a lot more utilitarian than it is art. — John D'Agata

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality — John Stuart Mill

To recognize that automobiles are there to get you from point A to point B. They are utilitarian devices, not expressions of social status. — Randy Pausch

Design is not art. Design is utilitarian, art is not. — Massimo Vignelli

I am not one of these people who spend a ton of time in front on my computer; I see it as very utilitarian. — Donny Deutsch

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.
(Frauds on the Fairies, 1853) — Charles Dickens

I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise. — Peter Singer

I stood before her asserting my age, but in truth not knowing where the years had gone or how they had led up to this moment. — David Dabydeen

One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning". — Alan Turing

The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality. — John Rawls

An open mind is not an empty one. — Roger Fisher And William Ury Of The Harvard Negotiation Project

[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character. — James A. Garfield

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. — David Lodge

Books were good at developing a contemplative mind. Screens encourage more utilitarian thinking. A — Kevin Kelly

If only people realized Corbusier is pure nineteenth century, Manchester school utilitarian, and that's why they like him. — Evelyn Waugh

His plain, undecorated, and utilitarian work reeked week of provincialism. — Andrew Pettegree

Todd came toward me with the squad trailing behind him like a street gang of angry thugs with breasts. — Kristin Walker

What is the beautiful, if not the impossible. — Gustave Flaubert

It's music as wallpaper, utilitarian, music as Prozac or Xanax to control how you feel. Music as aerosol room freshener. — Chuck Palahniuk

utilitarian office — Douglas Corleone

Definitely not a sitcom, that's my first condition. No sitcoms. — Hector Elizondo

More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable. — Michel De Certeau

If we grow weary and give up, the goal remains for someone else to achieve. — Zig Ziglar

Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom. — John Carroll

I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian. — Dave Eggers

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster. — Niklaus Wirth

A cheap, utilitarian clock hung on the wall; its secondhand clicked inconsistently - slow, fast, fast, slow - as if it were spitting out Morse code. — Anonymous

A book written within, contains ideas and thoughts from all over, where each page explains itself. — Auliq Ice