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Quotes About Relevance

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Most great plays of the past lose their grip on immediacy; on application to our lives right now.
~ Mike Nichols
All I can say is we love what we do, and the audience is still there for us. I think what's given us such longevity is that our music may not be fancy, but it touches a nerve with the average Joe.
~ Rickey Medlocke
Our story is in two halves, as the band's career up to Freddie's death was 20 years, and 20 years later, our music is as popular as it was then. It's a sort of everlasting... income.
~ Roger Taylor
It feels wonderful that people, both young and old, listen to our music, and that it still makes an impact.
~ Liz Mitchell
So often in this industry people tell us we've had our day or we've had our time.
~ Guy Sebastian
The only reason to keep talking about history is if you are juxtaposing it with the world that we live in today, if you are learning something about our world by looking at the way they shaped their world.
~ Leslie Odom, Jr.
I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
~ Dalai Lama
Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Our readers get what we do, and I don't think about what it's going to look like to the outside world. I don't really care.
~ Dave Portnoy
I really want to demonstrate I'm not to be overlooked anymore.
~ Tim Kennedy
The people I know who have retired, so many of them lose interest and die; they just become nobodies overnight.
~ Gerry Harvey
quality is most of all a function of its usefulness. The Corporate Quality Program Real quality has little to do with defects
~ Tom DeMarco
Appearance is stressed far too much in workplace design. What is more relevant is whether the workplace lets you work or inhibits you.
~ Tom DeMarco
New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.
~ Tom Holt
Axiom Nine: In the absence of valid conditions, standards are completely meaningless.
~ Unknown
The very success of the Western way of war has led to its increasing irrelevance with regards to ongoing conflicts; how can the enemy state be defeated when it has already been destroyed, not only as a coherent military force but as a government entity as well?
~ Unknown
Zeg nooit: ik heb mij zitten vervelen. Zeg: verveling maakte een relevant onderdeel uit van de opgeroepen emoties.
~ Unknown
Zeg nooit: ik heb gisteren een goed toneelstuk gezien. Zeg: ik was gisteren getuige van een relevante toneelervaring.
~ Unknown
Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
~ Tom Lehrer
Let me let you in on a little secret," he writes. "If you are hearing about something old, it is almost certainly good. Why? Because nobody wants to talk about shitty old stuff, but lots of people still talk about shitty new stuff, because they are still trying to figure out if it is shitty or not. The past wasn't better, we just forgot about all the shitty shit.
~ Tom Vanderbilt
How can they say Coming to a theater near you when they don't even know where you live?
~ Unknown
The British House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
~ Tony Benn
Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
~ Tony Benn