Quotes About Relevance

Always be the right person for the right job at the right time. Remember time is always right.

Without a purpose, schools are houses of detention, not attention

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.

Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures.

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless.

Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.

Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's problems.

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.

In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted.

The Constitution is like my old blue dress ... it doesn't fit anymore.

I have a bigger mission than any kind of specific politics, which is trying to restore the accessibility of rock 'n' roll.

France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

It is hard to know what Sarah Palin means in Republican politics anymore.

Politics is topical - it's what's happening now, and we can either respond in the present or avoid it.

It's easy to follow national politics and weigh in on social media, but if I'm tweeting stuff about Chatham County, no one cares.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of polities'. All issues are political issues.