Quotes About Relevance

I have been in advertising and I know my craft well, but ultimately in cinema every scene has to matter, and that has to do with the writing.

If you don't need umpires out there, and you can put robots out there, then why do we need ballplayers?

In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't have too much of the smell of yourself, otherwise the reader will be unable to make it her own.

I was in government for 13 years and in that time only once met the head of the German security services, and that was because he was an old friend. Otherwise, I carefully avoided having anything to do with these people. They are unavoidable but not really necessary.

How many times have we seen politicians in office become cut off from the outside world and become unaware that the world has moved on?

We were such a part of everybody's life in the Second World War. We represented something overseas and at home - a sort of security.

Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years' War.

I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.

Alexander Trocchi was an existentialist. He was looking at an alienated artist in the post-war period. It's modern because it applies now as well.

What does it matter who is ruler of a realm that no longer exists?

With commitment and vision, it is possible to build a bridge between potential partners and communities whose work is of relevance to peace-building initiatives.

Knowledge is not what is memorised. Knowledge is what benefits.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Wisdom doesn't go out of style, even if it's in increasingly short supply.

Did you ever think that making a speech on economy is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.

Socialism is a dead horse.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.

Technically he was right, Jarel knew. So why should it seem so important?

Her disquiet had no relevance to her life. It arose out of the ground with the smell of the dead leaves ... She compared herself to the ripening acorn that feels through windless autumnal days and nights the increasing pull of the earth below. That explanation was very poetical and suitable. But it did not explain what she felt. She was not wildly anxious either to die or to live; why, then, should she be rent by this anxiety?