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Quotes About Relevance

Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once considered immortal have become mortal again, no one knows them anymore. Even though they deserve to survive.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
Europe was so small. It seemed weird that people took it so seriously.
~ Elif Batuman
I couldn't help thinking it was wasteful for people with such good logic skills to spend so many years and so much energy learning to reconcile an old book with the way things were now. Couldn't a person just write a new book?
~ Elif Batuman
This idea was carried forward by the British philosopher C.D. Broad who wrote: The function of the brain and the nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and otherwise irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive.
~ Anthony Peake
ut res magis valeat quam pereat).
~ Antonin Scalia
A person should never chat about own life's achievements with the people who can not get profit out of it as some will never appreciate it and the most will further humiliate him by all means & methods.
~ Anuj Somany
Breaking news is often to break the audience views on the real issues that require top authority's due attention and their immediate solution.
~ Anuj Somany
The historical facts show that most people can't feel anything worthwhile, so how could a person make them think to accept anyone worth respecting.
~ Anuj Somany
The reality is that literally no one cares to know as what anyone says or shares on social media sphere unless sees own profit or enjoyment out of it; but if the post is from a billionaire or big chair holder person then a plethora of boot-lickers & job/business opportunity-seekers come from everywhere to Like & comment on it. And when a woman uploads damn anything, a lot of philanderers swarm in as shameless supporters.
~ Anuj Somany
The success of a movie is not really measured by the box office collection, but the connection made by its content actually on heart-to-heart basis with the audience.
~ Anuj Somany
His entire life in India had become irrelevant and meant nothing. Not his own achievements, not his family's affluence, everything was beyond the curtain of mirrors with which America bounded itself. Nothing beyond mattered. Here he had to recreate himself, but the basic building block of his new persona was his colour.
~ Anurag Mathur
If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.
~ Aretha Franklin
Isn't it surprising how many things, if not said immediately, seem not worth saying ten minutes from now?
~ Arnot L. Sheppard
Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
~ Arthur Balfour
Politics is real. It has an impact on people's lives. It's harder to quantify the impact art has. Personally, I oscillate between two extremes. Some days I think it's very important. Other days I think it isn't important at all.
~ Killian Scott
If you still produce at the quarterback position, it doesn't matter what age you are.
~ Carson Palmer
At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever.
~ Brian May
Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
~ Samuel Barnett
Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.
~ Vera Rubin
If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.
~ Bruce Nauman
If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.
~ Kurt Loder
People will forget me pretty quick.
~ Tom Landry
I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.
~ John Hodgman
I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
~ Isaac Brock