Quotes About Relevance

They just didn't have the sense of the strength of their vote. Just thought it wasn't necessary.

My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.

What the pragmatist has his pragmatism for is to be able to say, Here is a definition and it does not differ at all from your confusedly apprehended conception because there is no practical difference.

Relatable is the secret of success.

Maybe some find that so, but Joseph Sobran better expresses my feelings: "It can be exalting to belong to a church that is five hundred years behind the times and sublimely indifferent to fashion; it is mortifying to belong to a church that is five minutes behind the times, huffing and puffing to catch up."1

TURNER Fine. He's not a punk. He's a weenie. OLDER BROTHER Objection. PROSECUTION Is that your only move? Let me guess, you got an A in Objections at law school. OLDER BROTHER (to judge) I don't see how my client being a weenie is relevant.

The worst thing about him was that while he appeared to know more facts than could be contained in the world's largest encyclopaedia, he seemed not to know the most important fact of all – that nobody was remotely interested in a word he had to say.

What galleries and museums have to do with a dead man is beyond me. Writing about shit like that in the city we were living in seemed equal to writing about the surf conditions while reporting in the Gaza Strip.

Have you no respect for the past? For what was thought and believed by your foremothers?" "Why, no," she said. "Why should we? They are all gone. They knew less than we do. If we are not beyond them, we are unworthy of them—and unworthy of the children who must go beyond us.

I started reading today's Apple announcement on my cool state-of-the-art MacBook Pro, and finished reading it on my stupid obsolete MacBook Pro.

In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.

In this business (showbiz) it takes time to be really good and by that time, you're obsolete.

What helps us stay relevant is that we haven't really set out on this musical experience to reach a destination. We consider the whole thing a journey. So it's not like we stopped off at Rock Island and now we're stranded there. We actually just get onboard the boat and let the winds take us where it will.

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore

Of course, critics asked what a novelist was doing on the serious editorial page. After all, I was no intellectual with grey hair. I couldn't answer them. They were probably right at some level. However, this was destiny. This was meant to happen.

...not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

I mean how can anything one has suggested in Havre or Rouen, have anything to do with anything else of moment in Paris?

Through bifocal preaching, those who hear come to understand and experience what the eternal God has to say to them today.

What does this mean?" What has to be explained so that my listeners will understand the passage? Does the biblical writer explain his statements or define his terms? Does he assume that the original readers understood him and needed no explanation? Are there concepts, terms, or connections that modern listeners might not understand that you need to explain to them?

Fiction that fails to engage an audience with the emotional intricacies of viable characters will, for many in that audience, simply alienate them with its profound irrelevance at the human level.

The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed; but the great book has its revenge. It lives to see its contemporary pushed up shelf by shelf until it finds its final resting-place in the garret or the auction room.