We can stand up and tell people they ought to be keeping up-to-date with patches, but in the real world, that's not particularly useful advice. There are just so many of them.

Eric Hemmendinger

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Edwin Way Teale

I use it a lot when I go to Mexico with my mom, so it's very useful. Basically, that should come in real handy.

Elizabeth Phillips

Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires...

Elizabeth Hardwick

And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart,/ And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart.

Edward Lear

A conductor is really useful here.

Edward Elgar

It's useful. It brings this whole issue more into the public awareness. It will perhaps encourage people to listen more carefully and study the proposal to decide whether it helps them or hurts them.

Ted Lynch

As well as helping Aaron prepare Justin is very useful to the Wales squad, as he is the only one who can push back Kevin Evans (heavyweight hope). As a reward, Justin will get four days holiday in Thailand after Aaron moves on to Australia on March 9.

Eddie Lloyd

It (electrical outlets) would be very useful.

Ed Citron

Patents which conserve an edge in a rapidly changing market, may have uses for companies such as IBM. But patents which inhibit your customer's ability to achieve their own goals or to contribute to jointly build technology or community build technology are not useful to a company such as IBM wishes to be.

Eben Moglen

Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.

Fred Smith

But it's a useful way of increasing sales and drawing attention to literary fiction, which is no bad thing.

Zoe Heller

Salesforce.com and other CRM solutions would be really useful if they actually had customer data stored. But they only have prospects. There's no way to make a prospect into a customer unless you tie together ERP and CRM.

Zach Nelson

Your photographic equipment does not need to be anything fancier than a basic 35 mm with color film or a digital camera with reasonable resolution - fuzzy or pixilated pictures aren't very useful.

Eric Mousel

I do not intend to sacrifice the scientific utility of the expedition to a mere record-breaking journey, but say frankly, all the same, that one of my great efforts will be to reach the southern geographical Pole.

Ernest Shackleton

It's a great experience for me. I'm still young in the sport. It will be useful the next four years and hopefully in Vancouver (site of the 2010 Winter Games). It will make it easier if I'm ever in this spot again.

Erin Hamlin

They've packaged it just slightly different enough so that it's more of a utility vehicle -- a smaller crossover. It represents a much better value than Neon ever did.

Erich Merkle

It's not a tax. It's a utility. It is a fee proportional to their usage. If the utility is doing the job right, (taxpayers) should pay less.

Eric Thompson

He loses control of the van he was driving and crashes into a utility pole, which is just outside a cemetery.

Elizabeth Dunigan

You never want a situation where someone has a veto power, ... But having parents at the front end, serving on an advisory committee ... can be extremely useful and actually insulate districts against attacks on books because parents have been involved.

Elliot Mincberg

Especially in a state that is so rural, like Vermont, in order to compete in the global marketplace, in order to be able to sell as many of their products locally, it's a very useful strategy to have businesses come together in the form of a business network, or an association.

Ellen Kahler

I talked to an Episcopal priest who said everyone's lost something. We're all in grief together. To try to compare one loss with another is not a useful activity.

Ellen Frohnmayer

Some of the buckles could be useful. I've got a couple experiments there.

Eli Reich

I think the availability of these new products, especially without a doctor's prescription and the costs associated with that, will be a very useful tool for the millions and millions of smokers in the United States who desperately want to give up the habit.

Elizabeth Whelan