Unhelpfully Quotes & Sayings

If you're not prepared, and you're not passionate, and you don't push yourself to a level of human exhaustion on every level, mentally and physically and creatively ... I've seen directors who approach it casually, and they do somehow maintain better hours ... but I could never be that guy. I am up and editing all night. — Drew Barrymore

When asked how he accomplished his astonishing discoveries, Newton replied unhelpfully, By thinking upon them. — Carl Sagan

Snow, the boy is called," Pycelle said unhelpfully. "I glimpsed him once at Winterfell," the queen said, "though the Starks did their best to hide him. He looks very like his father." Her husband's by-blows had his look as well, though at least Robert had the grace to keep them out of sight. — George R R Martin

These were his friends of the business community; a man in business had to have such, and he visited and entertained but neither touched nor was touched, ever. — Saul Bellow

I saw a Velveeta commercial, and it was playing, I think, 'Burning Love.' [Jackson] had approved it-that's something we can't control. He can do whatever he wants with the songs he owns to make money, and that got under my skin. — Lisa Marie Presley

When your life burns to ash before you, it's hard to find hope in the embers of what remains. — Darby Briar

Elderly witches and wizards still use the saying 'I'll take Cadogan's pony' to mean, 'I'll salvage the best I can from a tricky situation'. — J.K. Rowling

We ought to listen to music or sit and practice breathing at the beginning of every meeting or discussion. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Pursing my lips, I strive to appear unaffected by his touch. He is so artful at diverting me from anything painful, or anything he doesn't want to address. And you let him, my subconscious pipes up unhelpfully, gazing over her copy of Jane Eyre. — E.L. James

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne — Madame Roland

I felt vibration as my shield began to plow through Coral's upper atmosphere; Asshole rather unhelpfully chimed in that we had begun to experience turbulence. — John Scalzi

It's a puzzler, and I don't want to sound full of myself, but I may just be the Vyrus messiah."
He shakes his head.
"I don't know for sure. Have to meditate on that shit some more. Anyhoo. — Charlie Huston

Don't ever give up your beliefs to make another happy! — Timothy Pina

We came to woodlands, with leaves unfurling on every branch, as if one blow of spring's green hammer had set them exploding from the bud. — Mark Lawrence

I glanced at Carson, who had promised things would be alright. His gaze was on the floor, and a muscle in his jaw flexed rhythmically but unhelpfully. If he was trying to send me a message, I was out of luck, because I'd never learned Morse Code for Assholes. — Rosemary Clement-Moore

Everything is in front of you! Nothing, but the past is behind you. There is no need to look back if you want to go forward! — De Angelo R. Moody

Rufus Maleficarus has sorely disappointed me personally. I thought he was making quite a good recovery from what the previous director had unhelpfully referred to as "a soul-searing, sanity-dissolving, profoundly malevolent appetite for power and revenge." As it happens, I think the finger-painting lessons were going very well, at least up until Rufus used the paint to create a summoning circle, and then rode out of here on the back of an obliging Hound of Tindalos ... — Jonathan L. Howard

I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me. — Jesse Eisenberg

But what did that mean? Was family the ones you were born to, or the ones who took you in? Did the first years of his life weigh more than the rest? — V.E Schwab

I've got the Mark of Cain," said Simon. "That means nothing can kill me, right?"
"You can kill yourself," Magnus said, somewhat unhelpfully. "As far as I know, inanimate objects can accidentally kill you. So if you were planning on teaching yourself the lambada on a greased platform over a pit full of knives, I wouldn't."
"There goes my Saturday. — Cassandra Clare