Quotes About Relevance

What the deuce is it to me? he interrupted impatiently: you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

But the Solar System!" I protested. "What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently; "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

The absence of the latter means nothing, though its presence may mean everything

However, I guess your time is of value, and we did not meet to talk about the cut of my socks.

It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.' 'But

They are important, you understand, without being interesting.

no serious book can now be sure of surviving.

Con sólo temer a la mediocridad, ya se está a salvo: he aquí el consuelo que usted me ofrece. Mas yo le pregunto: ¿A salvo de qué? ¿No se estará a salvo en la certeza de no ser un mediocre? ¿Qué importa lo que uno teme o deja de temer? ¿Acaso lo más importante no es que las cosas sean efectivamente como tememos que sean?

I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there.

Here, then, is a fundamental principle of Bible study: we reflect first on what the words communicated to those who heard them; then we work out, with the help of the Spirit, how they apply to us.

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth...

If I ran the country there'd be courses in things that you'd actually use your whole life. Like: How to do eyeliner. How to fill in a tax return. What to do when your loo blocks and your dad isn't answering the phone and you're about to have a party.

Hundreds?" I stare at her. "Why did you keep hundreds of email printouts?" "Don't you start!" says Demeter defensively. "I suppose I thought I might need them one day.

To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!

Only the Eternal is always appropriate and always present, is always true. Only the Eternal applies to each human being, whatever his age may be.

I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.

The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.

What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!

That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.

Art should be created for life, not for the museum.

I want my clothes to have a life and then end up in a secondhand store, where some cool girl discovers them 20 years later. If the runway or red carpet is the only life clothes have, it's sad.

Without a best friend to tell stories to, it almost didn't matter if they even happened.

Nothing in the world matters if you don't matter.