Quotes About Relevance

If the book is yours and it does not have antiquarian value, do not hesitate to annotate it. Do not trust those who say that you must respect books. You respect books by using them, not leaving them alone. Even if the book is unmarked, you won't make much money reselling it to a bookseller, so you may as well leave traces of your ownership.

the environment is now transmitting less and less useful information, and more and more that is entirely useless. 2009

L'insinuazione efficace è quella che riferisce fatti di per sé privi di valore, ancorché non smentibili perché veri.

But then, apart from politicians and the pope, why does anyone else use Twitter? Perhaps to feel important.

Tudo, até o irrelevante, pode ser útil um dia.

Once you lose touch, it's easy for it to stay lost.

Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world.

Two old women. They complain, never satisfied. We talk of no food, and of how good it was in our days when it really was no better. We think that we are so old. Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a moment's silence, Perhaps more so.

For prying into any human affairs, none are equal to those whom it does not concern.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment's pause, "Perhaps more so.

There are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation.

The beautiful is just as useful as the useful.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful. ... perhaps more so.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful.

Three years ago, I began writing this novel about hard times in America: the worst environmental disaster in our history; the collapse of the economy; the effect of massive unemployment. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that the Great Depression would become so relevant in our modern lives, that I would see so many people out of work, in need, frightened for the future.

We don't need to learn about what old rich men did more than one hundred years ago. The world is falling apart now.

I don't care what you think unless it is about me.

I don't care what you think unless it is about me.

Nothing is more practical than a good theory.

I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.

The most rigorous reading is to find what those words on that page mean in our own lives.

but never really made an effort to talk to her. Never really felt the need. She wasn't my type, if I even had a type.

You matter.