Quotes About Relevance

I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers will be interested in and should know about.

I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.

In most Life Situations, the truth is irrelevant. Once in a great while, however, it's the only thing you've got.

Moral claims aren't, as a class, truth-value apt or not.

My truth is relevant and my songs are relevant, but I have to recalibrate myself and speed up my vibrations so that I can communicate with the voice of this generation.

The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers.

The biggest misconception people have is that quality is all that matters. The truth is that quality helps, but there's a ton of high-quality things that don't go anywhere.

The cold, basic truth is that you are a vital and necessary part of this world

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.

In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.

Universal truths have become an embarrassment, but they won't quite go away.

Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it." The logic in the words grated. "The first rule of scoundrels?

Jesus communicated parables to the secular people around him and he used stories that were very relevant to their lives, and He was taking heaven's truth and packaging it in an earthly context.

The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth.

Truth takes no account of centuries.

There are truths that are not for all men nor for all times.

Truth is what works.

Everything's Matter. Everything Matters.

Don't care about day to day things, don't care about the mundane, but care about what matters.

His words didn't take stands, just described feelings that a lot of his audience felt, too. There were no strident political exhortations, no hipper-than-thou posturing.

We are perfectly satisfied with the number of people who like the band," Albini declared in 1987 at the peak of the band's popularity. "It wouldn't bother us at all if half that many did. I don't think it would change anything if ten times as many came to see us. It wouldn't change the way we do anything, it wouldn't change the number of people that give a shit, it wouldn't change the effect of the band—it would just be more bodies.

Renouncing sex, drugs, and drink was renouncing the unattainable rock & roll myth, making music relevant for real people—you couldn't pursue the rock & roll lifestyle and then get up in the morning and go to school or work.

The works of the past don't have to be right to be great works.

He was astonished at the course that life could take, at the way things that had seemed once to concern him so much--indeed to revolve around him--could turn out to have nothing to do with him at all.