Quotes About Relevance

The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.

Personal's not the same as important. People just think it is.

Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be.

Personal isn't the same as important.

He'd always felt he had a right to exist as a wizard in the same way that you couldn't do proper maths without the number 0, which wasn't a number at all but, if it went away, would leave a lot of larger numbers looking bloody stupid.

Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn't divide easily into 'true' and 'false', but instead could be 'things that people needed to know at the moment' and 'things that they didn't need to know at the moment'.

Vimes took the view that life was so full of things happening erraticaly in all directions, that the chance of any of them making some kind of relevant sense were remote in the extreme.

IN MY EXPERIENCE, SUSAN, WITHIN THEIR HEADS TOO MANY HUMANS SPEND A LOT OF TIME IN THE MIDDLE OF WARS THAT HAPPENED CENTURIES AGO.

New things, new ideas arrived and strutted their stuff and were vilified by some and then lo! that which had been a monster was suddenly totally important to the world.

The universe required everything to be observed, lest it cease to exist.

No. It's just personal. Personal's not the same as important. People just think it is.

News is unusual things happening— And usual things happening [...] But news is mainly what someone somewhere doesn't want you to put in the paper— Except that sometimes it isn't [...] News, [...] all depends. But you'll know it when you see it.

One minute walking along, the next minute dead. Why? THINK OF IT BEING MORE... DIMENSIONALLY DISADVANTAGED. Yes. I know. Beano relaxed, and stopped wondering too much about events in an increasingly irrelevant world. Death found that people often did, after the initial confusion. After all, the worst had already happened. At least... with any luck.

No information is useless. It's just a key waiting for the right lock to open.

The past closer, more comparable, a way to justify present action.

Nothing holds out these days, and next thing you know we'll be counting those who are famous by days.

Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum.

The things that make for a good journalist - or for that matter, make for good journalism - they've never changed since the craft was invented.

For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.

'Konnichiwa,' to me, is a classic because I don't make music for today where everyone is going to judge what I did in two years; they're gonna tell me today.

You can only judge anything that happened in the times, in the times that that happened.

Judging by the number of things I get asked to do I don't think the public are sick of me.

I don't want to be someone that, when people look back, they think, 'Yeah, cool, he made us jump around for a bit in 2010.'

The jury system is one of the few ideas from the 13th century which still flourishes in the 21st century.