Quotes About Relevance

You know, the name is about 3 percent of what matters. But sometimes, 3 percent is the difference between winning and losing.

Things become clichés because they are apropos." "Breaks

Karl Marx is irrelevant to many millions of them because, in America, religion is the poetry of the people and not their opiate.

As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he'll look for his lessons.

Little Chuck Little, a hundred years old in his knowledge of cows and their habits, was halfway through an Uncle Natchell story when Miss Gates stopped him: 'Charles, that is not a current event. That is an advertisement.

I hope the world will little note nor long remember what you are saying here.

A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation."  —Stephen Crane

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.

Maybe in a few years I'll be able to explain things better, but after a few years it probably won't matter anymore, will it?

Está empezando un nuevo día. Quizá sea un día como los demás, o quizá sea un día relevante que, por diferentes razones, quede grabado en la memoria. En cualquier caso, por el momento, todo el mundo tiene ante sí un hoja en blanco, sin nada escrito.

Pero, si se me permite formular una anodina teoria general, en nuestra vida imperfecta las cosas inutiles son, en cierta medida, necesarias.

Mas, vendo bem, e se me é permitido um lugar-comum corriqueiro, não será que até as coisas inúteis têm cabimento neste mundo longe-de-ser-perfeito? Se desta vida imperfeita eliminássemos tudo o que é inútil, a imperfeição deixaria ela própria de fazer sentido.

What would be the meaning of a world that did not change when an Idea was extinguished? Can an Idea be so insignificant?

You slowly but surely become a has-been.

Unless you understand the underlying problem, you risk designing a solution that doesn't do what users need—or one that does far more than required. Either way, you're wasting time and money

Modern biblical scholarship has demonstrated that the Bible is the product of cultures whose values and beliefs about the origin, nature, and purpose of our world are no longer held to be relevant, even by most Christians and Jews.

Jill: 'I don't pay attention to politics.' Ben: 'You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat.' Jill: 'I don't pay attention to that, either.

I don't pay any attention to politics. You should. It's only barely less important than your own heartbeat. I don't pay any attention to that either.

it doesn't count, like time spent in Brooklyn

Ramona was, to the world at large, a far more important person than the Señora herself. The Señora was of the past, Ramona was of the present.

As long as Green Lantern is still dealing with fear, it's going to be relevant. 'Rebirth' really grew out of 9/11. 9/11 happened, and then two years later, I was writing about fear. It was obviously connected.

I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!

Weirdly, the past starts to be about something else. It becomes about style in a way that it wasn't about, and I don't mean writing style, but cultural style.