When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.
Todd Solondz

When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
Lois McMaster Bujold

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

While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.
Herbie Hancock

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.
Douglas Hurd

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.
Charles Bradlaugh

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.
Claire Danes

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
Rowan Atkinson