Uselessness quotes

“Is it possible that we two, you and I, have grown so old and so inflexible that we have outlived our usefulness?”

Leonard Nimoy - Spock

“All I wanted to be was happily useless, you made me miserably useless.”

Peter O'Toole - Peter Plunkett

“- Imam: I have already prayed with the others. It is painless.
- Riddick: It is pointless.”
Keith David - Abu 'Imam' al-Walid
Vin Diesel - Richard B. Riddick

“- Rodrigo Mendoza: Father, I've come to ask you to bless me.
- Father Gabriel: No. If you're right, you'll have God's blessing. If you're wrong, my blessing won't mean anything.”
Robert De Niro - Rodrigo Mendoza
Jeremy Irons - Father Gabriel

“Some of us are cursed with memories like flypaper. Stuck there is a staggering amount of miscellaneous data, most of it useless.”
Robert Stephens - Sherlock Holmes

“- Rosa Vasquez: Please don't say anything weird to Billy.
- Freddy Freeman: You mean like how the Romans used to brush their teeth with their own urine?”
Marta Milans - Rosa Vasquez
Jack Dylan Grazer - Freddy Freeman

“I need another Italian song like a giraffe needs a strep throat.”

Dean Martin - Dino

“I'm very non-physically resourceful. I read a lot of intelligence, I read a lot of poems, and I've read all of the 'Hunger Games'.”
Miranda Hart - Nancy B. Artingstall

“Like cutting Tolstoy's beard so he wouldn't write any revolutionary novels.”

Lionel Barrymore On Greta Garbo, Louis Burt Mayer

“- Sherlock Holmes: As a matter of fact, Lestrade, You can be some help.
- Inspector Lestrade: Of course!
- Sherlock Holmes: Hold my coat, it's hot in here.”
Sir Michael Caine - Sherlock Holmes
Jeffrey Jones - Inspector Lestrade

“What good is tearing up something thats already torn?”
Renée Humphrey - Hillary

“Crazy is building your ark after the flood has already come.”
John Goodman - Howard

“I don't think any good will come out of modern technology as it is used in the United States today.
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Fritz Lang

“Placebo means bullshit.”
Megan Charpentier - Gretta

“So much of philosophy is just verbal masturbation.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Abe

“- Lucien Cordier: You know I never arrest anyone unless I have to. I have enough troubles of my own.
- Leonelli: What good is an empty prison?”
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier
Gérard Hernandez - Leonelli

“Automobiles are a useless nuisance. Never amount to anything but a nuisance and they had no business to be invented.”
Tim Holt - George Minafer

“You're born... as a man... with the nerves of a soldier, the apprehension of an angel, to lift a phrase, but there is no use for it.”
Mark Wahlberg - Jim Bennett

“I'm an astronomer, not a doctor! I mean, I am a doctor, but I'm not that kind of doctor. I have a doctorate, it's not the same thing. You can't help people with a doctorate. You just sit there and you're useless!”
David Hyde Pierce - Doctor Doppler

“Isn't weird how chairs exist even when you're not sitting on them?”
Seth Rogen - Ben Stone

“Why don't you leave Manderley? He doesn't need you... he's got his memories. He doesn't love you, he wants to be alone again with her. You've nothing to stay for. You've nothing to live for really, have you?”

Judith Anderson - Mrs. Danvers

“- Billy Fish: This is great, just great.
- McCoy: You wanna help change this tire, shorty?
- Billy Fish: Changin' flat tires isn't exactly my line of work, dear.
- McCoy: If that's the case then why don't you just shut up.”
Rick Moranis - Billy Fish
Amy Madigan - McCoy

“- Lenny Weinrib: I'm completely superfluous.
- Kevin: Oh, you don't feel good?”
Woody Allen - Lenny
Michael Rapaport - Kevin

“- Sir Robert Morton: Oh, you still pursue your feminist activities?
- Catherine Winslow: Oh yes.
- Sir Robert Morton: Pity. It's a lost cause.”
Jeremy Northam - Sir Robert Morton
Rebecca Pidgeon - Catherine Winslow

“John, do me a favor. Don't ever confide in me. I'm utterly useless in these areas. I'm really a very self-absorbed man.”

Oliver Platt - Dr. Mark Weller