"In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless."

-- Bill Bryson

#Useless Quotes #Adaptability Quotes #Term Quotes

“Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.”
“I love rhinestones, faux jewelry.”
“Science cannot stop while ethics catches up ... and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.”
“I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.”
“One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.”
“I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.”
“The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding, the chin in doubt, and the chin at bay.”

Source : Kenneth Tynan (1961). “Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Related Writings”

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