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The things that you know more about than you want to know are very useful. — Robert Stone

Forgetting is a very useful kind of ignorance: it wipes the bad sums off our slates. — Nanamoli Thera

Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle. — Samuel Johnson

I began to suspect that this doctrine, tho' it might be true, was not very useful. — Benjamin Franklin

The simplicity of noun-verb construction is useful - at the very least it can provide a safety net for your writing. — Stephen King

Acting has been very useful to me. — Jane Asher

If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading it. — Isaac

Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things. — Stacy Aumonier

To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save. — Andre Gide

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature. — Emma Bonino

But I value their hatred. I find it very useful. You see, people are always at their weakest when they're angry. — Lionel Luthor From Smallville

I found my smattering of German very useful here, indeed, I don't know how I should be able to get on without it. — Bram Stoker

Breaking tasks down into smaller sub-tasks can be very useful. — James Surowiecki

It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for. — James Hillman

I wouldn't go so far as to say I've got a plan. But I've got an idea. It's a very useful thing sometimes, an idea. - Superintendent Battle — Agatha Christie

Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way. — Morris Gleitzman

I find humming is very useful. — Elvis Costello

In highschool I was very excited that alog(b)=blog(a), and still find it useful today. — Noga Alon

One of the most useful and important ways to be able to use your psychic gifts is to learn how to read what's happening in your very own body. — Catherine Carrigan

Learning to focus attention and concentration is very useful; meditation can help you do that. — Andrew Weil

Dipsomancy is very real, but it takes more than just getting hammered to do anything useful. — Michael R. Underwood

The best ideas and the most useful and ground-breaking are often, though not always, in one sense, very simple ideas. — Joe Grant

I always thought the story [Anthem] would work in three dimensions - and studying that cut material was very useful. — Jeff Britting

One more word that may be useful in the heat of passion: dong. Dong sounds like someone very important has just arrived. — Joe Dunthorne

Gertje was right. To be an American was to be blessed with a kind of idiotic but very useful innocence. — Laurie Colwin

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath. — Jonathan Swift

It's never very useful to see your character as a villain. You have to play them the way they see themselves. — Lucy Lawless

I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience. — Noam Chomsky

Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful. — Larry Kramer

Adjustment of constants to make everything fit - that I couldn't be sure it was very useful. I wanted a rather deeper understanding — Richard Feynman

Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact. — Cormac McCarthy

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career. — Bernard Cornwell

For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God. — John Calvin

Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure. — Francis Of Assisi

The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be very
useful in the real world, that's for sure. — Haruki Murakami

Everyone had memorized a chant of names and villages along footpaths in every direction. This was a very useful map. — Rory Stewart

Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing. — Alexander Hamilton

Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before. — Luc Montagnier

There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose. — Kevin Spacey

Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with. — George Soros

Hemp is a part of the cannabis plant, and it is very useful. — Ziggy Marley

I love the notification system on Google+. If someone mentions you, you get notified via Gmail. That's very useful for someone like me. — Guy Kawasaki

I actually have two hats in my office; one says "network," one says "studio." Paul Lee over at ABC sent those over to us and I find it very useful. — Gary Numan

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society. — Samuel Johnson

I think video is very useful, but it's very useful when you want a certain reality. — Jaume Collet-Serra

Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there! — Deyth Banger

Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races ... very handy. — Terry Pratchett

Fear isn't a very useful emotion for a warrior. Rage is better. — Kirby Crow

Good God. He doesn't know me at *all*.
How crushing.
How illuminating.
How ... potentially very useful. — Julie Anne Long

The mind is a useful tool but not a very good friend. — Stephen Levine

Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy. — Hans Rosling

Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful. — Steven A. Cohen

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think. — Bertolt Brecht

I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting. — Paul Schrader

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Saint Teresa Of Avila

I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves. — Antony Gormley

The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it's not journalism. — Pete Hamill

Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful. — Rob Pike

Oh, I feel very angry a lot of the time," said Tiffany, "but I just put it away somewhere until I can do something useful with it. — Terry Pratchett

Fairy dust is very useful. I use it to turn oatmeal into cake. — David Shannon

Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful. — Andrea Arnold

The idea of God is very useful,' Napoleon said, 'to maintain good order, to keep men in the path of virtue and to keep them from crime. — Andrew Roberts

Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact. — Daniel Kahneman

The past is very useful, but only for what if can teach us about the present. The present is the rich thing. But I am very fond of the past. — Elizabeth Kostova

I'd want to fly. I know it's not very useful, but ... it's flying. — Rainbow Rowell

Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth. — Fareed Zakaria

In science, a path that turns out to be a dead end is very useful because you don't devote resources to focusing on that; you go elsewheres. — Michael Bloomberg

After all, a right that can't be exercised is not very useful to anyone. — Jessica Valenti

Sometimes it is very useful to have a reputation for being a reclusive, amoral jerk. — Brandon Sanderson

I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself. — Elizabeth Fry

Certainly these men who had so few spontaneous ideas might be very useful members of society under good feminine direction, — George Eliot

Advice is not really very useful. People gave me terrible advice, and I guess I was just smart enough to ignore some of it. — Travis Morrison

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world. — Antonio Tabucchi

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing. — Bernard Crick

If tomorrow all the bridges disappear in the world, then we can learn perfectly how very useful they were! Losing something is an excellent teacher! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman. — Arthur Conan Doyle

To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Pain is very useful. It warns you of danger, teaches you of hazards and provides consequences for your actions. — Lisa Gardner

Men are all very well, and a good husband can be enormously useful, but women like us need something to do. — Daisy Goodwin

But minding one's own business wasn't very interesting. Or useful. — Morgan Rhodes

All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis. — Helen Suzman

I feel that I've had a happy life, not a very useful life, but a happy one. — Ryan Shawcross

Working in this industry, I do feel that science and creativity turned out to be a very useful combination for me. — Chiwetel Ejiofor