Quotes About Relevance

No, he wasn't waiting; he was merely there, had been there before I arrived and would be there when I'd left. I had the feeling I was of no more significance to him than a passing cloud is to a shepherd resting on a hillside.

Never be afraid to speak your mind on relevant issues; good leaders stand for relevance and they are never afraid to face the facts head on. Bad leaders see the problems, close their eyes and do something else!

When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

Most people, when they reach a certain age, let down and talk about what they used to do. Well, who gives a damn about what you used to do? It's what you're doing now.

If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors. Like, Jay Z has some of the sickest lyrics ever, but I would never buy his CD, just because of my age and because of his age.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.

The primary function of the creative use of language - in our age - is to try to constantly restore words to their meanings, to keep the living tissue of responsibility alive.

The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.

I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.

We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.

Some things get better with age. And then there's Madonna.

Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.

I don't want people to think about my age. Notbecause I don't want them to know my age, I just don't want them to think about it, I don't want itto be a factor.

The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.

It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should I write at the age of sixty-four," but never, "What should I write in 1940."

But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.

All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire

Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.

I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.