Quotes About Relevance

You see, I read reviews of people like Paul Simon, and they don't talk about the fact that he's looking old or whether he is fashionable; they talk about the music, which is how it should be.

Cousin, the days of gods and heroes are over. Not to me. Not to them.

I realized that what matters with any innovation is that it actually creates more value for people.

Jeb Bush lost for many reasons, but the basic one is that he was running to win a race in a party that no longer existed. He was like a guy who showed up with a tennis racket at a bowling alley.

Just, that we read fiction because it suggests that life has a shape, and we feel . . . consoled, I think he said, by that notion. Consoled to think that life isn't just one damned thing after another. That it has sequence and consequence." She smiled at Edith. "I think it was more or less the idea that fictional narrative made life seem to matter, that it pushed away the

Small children will talk to anyone, once the guard of shyness has fallen, and they have, like the elderly, a sense of immediacy, a need to say or do something, now, now, the minute it is thought of, combined with that other sense, of the complete irrelevance of time.

You know how important you are to me—' 'As important as a bottle of medicine which gets thrown away as soon as the patient recovers

In fact the great truth of life is that the things most people think are important aren't really important at all.

Sarcasm is like Jell-O. It's always the right time and there's always room.

No one extraordinary appears to be entirely contemporary. People who are contemporary don't appear at all: they are invisible.

No es del todo erróneo afirmar que no existe una mala fotografía, sino solo fotografías menos interesantes, menos relevantes, menos misteriosas.

No book is worth reading once if it is not worth reading many times.

El contenido puede haber cambiado. Quizá sea ahora menos figurativo, menos lúcidamente realista. Pero aún se supone que una obra de arte es su contenido. O, como suele afirmarse hoy, que una obra de arte, por definición, dice algo («X dice que...», «X intenta decir que...», «Lo que X dijo...», etcétera, etcétera).

Will it matter in five years?

Oh," said the Duke of Wellington, not much interested, "they are still complaining about that, are they?

You mean at my age, I should care?

How can a country's history be chopped off as though it were irrelevant

I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.

All over America, in fact, people were up and out of their beds today in a continuing effort to polish turds. Sure, for the sake of survival, but more immediately for the sake of some sadistic manager or shit-brained client whose small imagination and numbingly dumb ideas were bleaching the world of all relevancy and hope.

I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.

At the point in his lecture where he was saying that the representative element in a work of art is always irrelevant, that for one to appreciate a work of art one must bring to it nothing from life, no knowledge of life's affairs and ideas, no familiarity with its emotions and desires, he was seized by the most stupefying boredom and he had to leave the stage.

He suddenly suspected what everyone comes to understand sooner or later, that communication was impossible and not even desirable, that compassion was worth no more than hate, that a tolerant indifference, an attention divided between respect and sensuality, was all that could be asked or be given.

Hamlet o Macbeth se leen maravillosamente hoy; muy al contrario, me parece, de lo que ocurre con tantos otros que dependen de la escena

Sistema legal: Basado en el Código de Derecho Canónico. Aunque no se aplica oficialmente desde 1868, sigue vigente la pena de muerte.