Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Farmers were always generalists. They had to know science and commerce and all sorts of practical things.
Rush D. Holt, Jr.
The Dutch are a very practical people.
Famke Janssen
My mother wasn't a stickler for the more practical approaches to life.
Diane Keaton
I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.
John Keegan
A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what... →
Carolus Linnaeus
I never really was much of a practical jokester or anything.
Kristanna Loken
If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.
Ernst Mach
I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.
China Machado
Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.
Bob Newhart