Quotes About Relevance

denn Applaus hat nur einen Wert, wenn er im gerechten Moment eintrifft. Als welke Spätblume ist er nichts als Beleidigung und Schimpf.

we can have a minute's silence.' 'That won't be necessary.' 'Of course not. It's only necessary when one has nothing valid to say. Silence makes even idiots seem wise for a minute.

Everything Sarah writes is what he needs to hear. Of course he knows this can be explained as a trick of love, that every word spoken by a lover becomes radiantly relevant and overlaid with gold.

Janie and Jodie looked at him as if he were an out-of-date computer chip.

El porqué es lo único importante..., no el qué

Whatever use double maths has in life is beyond me.

ONE THING OF GREAT IMPORTANCE can affect a small number of people. Equally so, a thing of little importance can affect a multitude.

I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory.

Everything that I decide to do means something, otherwise I don't do them.

The less replaceable you think you are, the more replaceable you are (and the less desirable you become).

If the actions of Hitler, Gandhi, Jesus Christ, anyone who had ever existed or would ever exist, were all meaningless, then surely sitting down next to Brandy Beltmeyer was equally meaningless.

The question, then, is whether being an "individual" makes a difference anymore. That it can matter at all. And if not, whether we in fact care.

You can't just live in the past, peddling the '80s Showtime Lakers, and expect everyone to know what that is. We have many fans who weren't even alive in the '80s.

As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it's inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes.

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

I can't think of a band that has made 19 albums, and hasn't either moved into what I call the manor class, or disappeared, or else is just doing things that are a very mellow version of what they've always done.

One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household.

There's something about all the films that I have made in that they don't seem old or dated, and some people mention that.

When you bring an idea that has no merit to me, and you ask me to comment on it, I'm going to tell you it has no merit.

You don't need sex and controversy when your film has merit.

There's a lot of criticism of brands getting involved with political messages, people sometimes don't like that, but I think it's really important. They have massive audiences and they have a huge reach.

Nobody wants to hear that you met Harry Truman... I met Harry Truman... But you know what I mean? Nobody's interested. They want to know you met Rihanna. And that kills me.

If I am not physically able to play for the Celtics, then why would Miami want me?

I don't want to be the guy who's 50-something years old sitting in front of a microphone with my beard dyed black and my hat on backwards, yo-yo-yoing.