Unnecessary Actions Quotes

The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

Ralston didn't care. He turned on his brother as the surgeon knelt next to him and inspected the wound. "She could have been killed!" And what about you?" This time, it was Callie who spoke, her own pent-up energy releasing in anger, and the men turned as one to look at her, surprised that she and found her voice. "What about you and your idiotic pland to somehow restore my honor by playing guns out in the middle of nowhere with OXFORD?" She said the baron's name in disdain. "Like children? Of all the ridiculous, unnecessary, thoughtless, MALE things to do...who even FIGHTS duels anymore?!

The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness.

I won't ever play something just for the sake of playing it, why would I do that?

Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy.

When I used to wash my hair with a two-for-one shampoo and conditioner, I would wash it twice, which is completely unnecessary, because that's the point - it's one bottle. Because I used to have the shampoo, that's one, conditioner, one. I did the same thing, even though it was two-in-one. I was corrected in my mid-20s by my girlfriend at the time, who laughed at me and said how stupid that was.

Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.

If the story's there for it, if there's a reason for it, then I'm all for it. But if you throw in a barbed wire match just to do a barbed wire match, then it makes no sense to me.

Kissing a new hero isn't acceptable to me, especially when it's not necessary.

There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again.

It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun

Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly and getting the hell out.

One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.

The thing I regret most about my life are those inane photos of me with icons. They used to come down here and dress me up, and I just tolerated it. It's my fault. But I shouldn't have done it. They literally brought down costumes, candles, and icons! It was unbelievable stupidity.