Quotes About Relevance

I do covers for CDs and LPs of music that I like, reissues of old-time music, and then I'm inspired to make some kind of drawing based on this love of the music. I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in.

It's dangerous not to tour, because people assume you've faded away, or have no interest.

If no one hears you, and no one listens to you, it doesn't matter how good you are because no one cares about you.

There's only a couple stats that matter. No one cares how many blocked shots a guy has, how many hits.

'The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys.

No one's going to remember you after football. No one cares about you after football.

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

There is no point in doing a lengthy role if there is no importance in it.

I got tired of soundchecks. At first it was important. But after a while, there was no point in me doing one.

for a while, I regarded just about any song in which somebody had lost somebody else as spookily relevant, which, as that covers the whole of pop music, and as I worked in a record shop, meant I felt pretty spooked more or less the whole time)

I stopped drinking so much, I stopped listening to song lyrics with quite the same morbid fascination (for a while, I regarded just about any song in which somebody had lost somebody else as spookily relevant, which, as that covers the whole of pop music, and as I worked in a record shop, meant I felt pretty spooked more or less the whole time)

I now accept that football has no relevance to the Falklands conflict, the Rushdie affair, the Gulf War, childbirth, the ozone layer, the poll tax, etc., etc., and I would like to take this opportunity to apologise to anyone who has had to listen to my pathetically strained analogies.)

C'era forse un posto più noioso al mondo del British Museum? Se c'era, Will non voleva sapere quale. Vasi. Monete. Brocche. Intere sale piene di piatti. Secondo Will doveva esserci uno scopo per mettere in mostra delle cose, e il fatto che fossero vecchie non significava necessariamente che fossero interessanti. Solo perché erano sopravvissute al tempo, non significava che tu volessi guardarle

It seemed that whether you felt something, or whether you felt nothing, it didn't matter: your responses were off either way.

Los hombres se ganan mucho mejor con las cosas presentes que con las pasadas, y cuando en las presentes hayan provecho las gozan sin inquirir nada.

I also believe that he who adapts his policies to suit the times will succeed, and he who does not, will fail.

If a leader merely carried out what historical forces made inevitable, it is not the person that mattered, it is the moment in time

Yeah, it's a bum rap, basically?it's like referring to Soviet-style bureaucracy as socialism, or any other term of discourse that's been given a second meaning for the purpose of ideological warfare. I mean, chaos is a meaning of the word, but it's not a meaning that has any relevance to social thought. Anarchy as a social philosophy has never meant chaos?in fact, anarchists have typically believed in a highly organized society, just one that's organized democratically from below.

Is what you think interesting enough to make the reader care? Are you saying something that no one has said? Above all, do you understand that you are not as important as what you're covering?

Like he cared about a lot of stupid settlers and Indians and soldiers who hung around out here before he was even born. Hell, before his prehistoric grandparents had been born. Who gave a shit about Crazy Horse and Sitting Bullshit. He cared about X-Men and the box scores.

Shut up. You Matter. That's it.

Because it's hard not to matter, even to someone you dislike.

When the Roman governor Pilate asked Jesus "What is truth?" nearly 2,000 years ago, he didn't wait for Jesus to respond.

time was just a hangover from the past with no present meaning