Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
Denis Diderot
Henry David Thoreau
Vernon Howard
Roy Bean
Matthew Prior
Zhuangzi
All authors
Today's birthdays
1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson
1928 - Andy Warhol
1651 - Francois Fenelon
1963 - Kevin Mitnick
1957 - James McGreevey
1943 - Jon Postel
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Athlete
Chef
Designer
Author
President
Architect
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Quote Topics
Practical Quotes
Practical Quotes
When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story called 'How to Build a Snowman,' from which no practical snowperson-crafting techniques could be gleaned. The story was an assignment for class and it featured a series of careful but meaningless instructions. Of course, the building of the snowman was a red herring.
Sloane Crosley
Class
Old
Build
Building
Herring
Nine
Featured
Could
Red
Instructions
Wrote
Practical
Course
How
Years
Short
Short Story
Story
Which
Meaningless
Series
Assignment
Techniques
Careful
I've been living in Mumbai for a long time now, and the city has grown on me and even become my home for all practical reasons. But I'll always be a Vizag girl at heart.
Sobhita Dhulipala
Time
Home
Me
Heart
Girl
Long
Long Time
Become
Living
City
Practical
Always
Been
Reasons
Even
Grown
Now
Mumbai
My parents are a wonderful mixture of bohemian eccentric, but also incredibly practical and not airy-fairy.
Sophie Kennedy Clark
Wonderful
Parents
Incredibly
Eccentric
Also
Practical
Mixture
Bohemian
I was a good student. For a while, my parents did make me cope with school and films simultaneously. But after a point, this wasn't practical. I had to choose between studies and films. I chose films.
Sridevi
Good
Me
School
Parents
Films
Good Student
Point
Student
Had
Studies
Simultaneously
Between
Practical
Make
Did
After
While
Choose
Chose
Cope
The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.
Stanley Tucci
Practical
Very
Thing
Filmmaker
Marriage can provide a bounty of emotional, practical, and financial support. But finding the right mate is no substitute for having friends and other interests.
Stephanie Coontz
Marriage
Financial
Other
Financial Support
Finding
Having
Emotional
Support
Bounty
Practical
Mate
Provide
Friends
Substitute
Interests
Right
Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.
Stephen Hawking
Great
History
Science
People
Benefits
Pure
Universe
Later
Out
Rather
Throughout
Studied
Practical
Understand
Discoveries
Commercial
Than
Gain
Turned
Applications
Desire
I loved practical jokes. I loved being goofy on the playground, and I loved doing silly cartoons, but I was not this subversive little delinquent. I am an Eagle Scout, after all.
Steve Breen
Jokes
Cartoons
Silly
Delinquent
Goofy
Practical
Am
Doing
Scout
Being
After
Loved
Little
Subversive
Eagle
Playground
I once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical stunt. If a stunt can be done practically and safely, I'd rather do it old-style.
Steven Spielberg
Time
You
Once
Rather
Inventive
Stunt
Practical
Safely
Practically
Makes
Said
Loss
Done
Less
I sent an ex of mine an enormous oil painting of me as a housewarming gift. It was one of the most elaborate and time-consuming practical jokes I've ever done.
Sue Perkins
Me
Jokes
Gift
Painting
Enormous
Mine
Most
Practical
Time-Consuming
Done
Oil
Elaborate
Sent
Ever
Practical knowledge of what works and what doesn't work is much better. Theoretical knowledge is important, but I think practical knowledge works better.
Sushant Singh Rajput
Work
Knowledge
Better
Important
Think
Practical
Much
Theoretical
Works
Meditation is practical, simple, and very useful. Taking even 30 seconds to rest your attention on your breath instead of following the cycle of your thoughts can bring you back to you in a heart beat.
Tara Stiles
Thoughts
You
Heart
Simple
Rest
Breath
Meditation
Seconds
Back
Following
Beat
Instead
Taking
Attention
Practical
Very
Cycle
Your
Useful
Even
Bring
I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.
Teresa Heinz
Work
All My Work
Solutions
Look
Practical
Because
Always
Healthcare
Very
Reform
Whether
Worked
Actually
Bipartisan
Limitations, be they practical or arbitrary, force artists to dig more deeply instead of settling for easy answers.
Terry Teachout
Dig
Settling
Arbitrary
Easy
More
Instead
Practical
Force
Limitations
Answers
Artists
Deeply
I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me to go into a profession that would be far more secure, so I went to medical school.
Tess Gerritsen
Me
Age
School
Parents
First
Seven
Secure
Would
Would-Be
More
Writer
Knew
Since
Practical
Go
Very
Storyteller
Urged
Far
Profession
Medical
Medical School
Our age is before all things a practical one. It demands of us all clear and tangible results of our work.
Theodor Svedberg
Work
Age
Before
Our
All Things
Results
Clear
Demands
Practical
Tangible
Us
Things
It's a practical matter. If you're useful to others, you'll be hired.
Thomas Newman
You
Matter
Others
Practical
Hired
Useful
I am very practical.
Tim Griffin
Practical
Am
Very
To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.
Timothy Noah
Education
Ignorance
Reality
Public Education
Before
Back
Mass
Days
Practical
Became
Pine
America
Public
Held
Illiteracy
Hoosiers are practical people, and Hoosier Republicans in particular have a history of unifying.
Todd Young
History
People
Particular
Practical
Republicans
Unifying
The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill had a good long siesta every day during the Second World War, and he said it was the thing that enabled him to cope with the pressure.
Tom Hodgkinson
War
Good
Day
Every Day
World
Value
Pressure
Long
Every
Churchill
Detour
Winston
Winston Churchill
Delightful
Had
He
Also
Practical
Concerned
Him
Said
Provides
As Far As
Far
Working
Working Day
Productivity
Cope
Thing
Second
World War
Second World War
My mom, through my dad, rented the apartment next door to his... he had the lease on both places. But then, she would dress up and act like his maid... a practical maid. No fantasies.
Trevor Noah
Mom
Would
Dress
Dress-Up
Both
Maid
Through
Had
He
Like
Practical
She
Lease
His
Up
Door
Places
Apartment
Fantasies
Then
Next
Next Door
Act
Dad
Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience.
Trofim Lysenko
Nature
Experience
Living
Numerous
Darwin
Through
Facts
Obtained
Practical
Prism
Them
If I'm connected to an idea, it just doesn't let me go. All I have to do is catch up to the image in my head by doing the practical steps to get there.
Trudie Styler
Me
Head
Catch
Idea
Steps
Practical
Doing
Go
Up
Get
Just
Connected
Image
I'm not romantic; I'm very practical. There are lots of fish in the sea; so whoever gets struck with your rod, one is as good as another.
Twinkle Khanna
Good
Struck
Practical
Another
Fish
Lots
Rod
Very
Gets
Romantic
Your
Sea
Whoever
I always tell students that you've got to be practical. You do not need a dream. You need a purpose, something you can wake up to in the morning when the dream is dissipated.
Twyla Tharp
Morning
You
Wake Up
Tell
Dream
Something
Purpose
Students
Practical
Always
Got
Wake
Up
Need
Load more quotes
No more practical quotes
Haven't find the right quote? Try another of these similiar topics.
About
Almost
Being
Body