Quotes About Relevance

Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there.

I think of Mike Myers as the Buster Keaton of today. I think he's brought us something so special.

I don't want to be just a lifestyle guru for the millennials.

When you're spending $100-plus million dollars, you need to give the audience what they want.

I'd much rather be in a movie that people have really strong feelings about than one that makes a hundred million dollars but you can't remember because it's just like all the others.

Unless we get out of these mindless comedies and a good-for-nothing fellow trying to win over the heroine kind of films, Tamil cinema will not be taken seriously.

Nous vivons la période de la mort de la mort de l'auteur.

The dead should not rule the living.

A classic is a book that remains in print"—Mark Van Doren)

It is often remarked that nothing we do now will matter in a million years. But if that is true, then by the same token, nothing that will be the case in a million years matters now. In particular, it does not matter now that in million years nothing we do now will matter.

Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person's time line sideways till they all coincide.

For there either was some Tristero beyond the appearance of the legacy America, or there was just America, and if there was just America then it seemed the only way she could continue, and manage to be at all relevant to it, was as an alien, unfurrowed, assumed full circle into some paranoia.

Can I say something out loud? Is anybody listening? Everybody. Nobody. Does it matter?

People who have already been out in the real world, practicing for years whatever their particular specialty might be, have some basis for determining which things are relevant enough to go into a curriculum to teach those who follow. The idea that students can determine relevance in advance is one of the many counterproductive notions to come out of the 1960s.

The idea that students can determine relevance in advance is one of the many counterproductive notions to come out of the 1960s.

Léautaud decía «escribid como si escribieseis una carta, no releáis, no me gusta la gran literatura, sólo me gusta la conversación escrita».

Love's opposite is not hatred, it's indifference

But no fifty-year-old can compete with a twenty-year-old.

Age Doesn't Matter Unless You're a Cheese

Were we sexually intimate? What difference could it possibly make to you?

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. - Paulo Coelho When

What, you think that just because we're demons, we don't like to stay current with world events? You think we don't like to be entertained? We're demons, not Nazis!

Nothing infuriates reporters and editors more, I'm told, than to get a pitch from someone who clearly has no idea what their publication is about or who their audience is.

Oh, I'm really sorry, I'm a personal friend of a friend of his. I just moved into the city, and Jane suggested that I should meet Michael, and honestly, I don't even know why besides the fact that Jane is a good friend of Michael's. Maybe you're right. Maybe it's all wrong. Maybe Michael doesn't know Jane well and he wouldn't want to meet me. I apologize if this is the case.