If your attention is on superfluous aspects that are not part of the story, then you can't be concentrating on the human realities of the piece.

Junk, redundancy, and inefficiency characterize astrophysical signals. It seems they characterize cells and sea lions, too. These biological constructions have lots of superfluous and redundant parts, and are a long way from being optimally built or operated.

Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.

Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.

It's time to roll back superfluous governmental regulations and limit government to its sole task: safeguarding the rights of its citizens.

The way the media tends to cover fashion is as this superfluous, vacuous industry. They focus on models and shows, but behind all that is a massive global industry.

Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One job.

It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.

For any writer, the ability to look at a sentence and see what's superfluous, what can be altered, revised, expanded, and, especially, cut, is essential. It's satisfying to see that sentence shrink, snap into place, and ultimately emerge in a more polished form: clear, economical, sharp.

In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

I love the idea of 3D, but it's completely superfluous to most stories.

Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

Democracy is indispensable, not because it renders superfluous the conquest of political power by the proletariat, but, on the contrary, because it makes this seizure of power both necessary and possible.

The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.