Quotes About Relevance

I'm tired of people questioning me because of my age. If you looked at my numbers and watched me throw and covered my birthdate, would age be an issue?

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

When I was better known than her, she put my name in that tent. I was asked to do Celebrity Big Brother, but why should I? We live in an age where fame is not related to what you do.

When animals age, some humans see them as less valuable, less important and less entertaining.

I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.

It is difficult to get played at my age on the radio.

After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.

Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind it doesn't matter.

Jesus on Twitter would have been a pretty amazing thing.

Things can only be true in a specific way, for one reader at a time, at a particular moment in a reader's life.

The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

Philosophy, however, is for the few, whereas poetry is more useful to the people at large.

How little you know the age you live in, says a god in Ovid, if you fancy that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.

Information is supposed to inform. That means it has to be reliable, relevant, current, and so on. There was a time when people believed that, given the right information, we

The past isn't dead. It isn't even past. --Wm. Faulkner

The past is never dead. It's not even past; it's always part of the present.

qué falso puede ser el más profundo de todos los libros cuando se pretende aplicarlo a la vida.

The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.

With nothing of value to show the fact will disappear. There is no fact but value.

It's more the way it is now than it's ever been," Cayce replies, a line of Dwight David Eisenhower's that she sometimes resorts to when she has nothing whatever to offer.

Allusions to Golding's book can be found in movies (Hook with Robin Williams), television (a stand-up comedy bit in Seinfeld, "The Library," season 3, episode 5), the novels of Stephen King, and contemporary music. Three of the most powerful and relevant songs that reference the novel include U2's "Shadows and Tall Trees," Iron Maiden's "Lord of the Flies," and The Offspring's "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid.

People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie; it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability.

For the pedant, dates are deities, worthy of worship, but for the true social historian, they are minutiae only, a shorthand, convenient reminders and no more. You do not ask a Titanic survivor, 'Let me see now, just exactly when was that?' You ask him this: 'What was it like? How did you feel?' And that is the job of the social historian: to make the past vibrant for the present; to emotionally involve those of us who were not there. And to make us understand.