Quotes About Relevance

Sometimes,PERSEVERANCE could simply mean EXTENDING YOUR IRRELEVANCE

It had been weeks since anyone had even tried to kill him. As long as someone was trying to kill you, you knew you were important.

She liked talking to him, and the rest was irrelevant. People changed over their lives after all, becoming thinner or heavier, balder or more grey. It was their essence that mattered most

We were alone in the dark, even though the enormous theater was filled with probably a thousand people. We were a tiny island in a sea of other people who didn't matter, who had no meaning, who were so stupid, so oblivious, so stuck in their own boring lives that they didn't even notice the huge, momentous, life-shattering event that was taking place right there in row L, between seats 102 and 104.

Que la vida es así: se pulsa un botón y la vida se enciende. Sólo que ella no sabía cuál era el botón que había que pulsar. Ni se daba cuenta de que vivía en una sociedad tecnificada donde ella era un tornillo prescindible.

Você e Tania sugerem que eu releia e desentorte o livro. Mas eu não consigo mais entrar dentro do ambiente dele. Para mim é como ler uma coisa vazia e eu tenho que parar de palavra em palavra para me concentrar, exatamente como eu encaro o primeiro livro, com o qual felizmente eu nada mais tenho a ver.

Nunca a vida foi tão atual como hoje: por um triz é o futuro

context is not meaning.

so it was hard to believe that establishing once and for all that there was no God could ever be done definitively. But if it were possible…would Leonard even mind at this point? Would he truly care if he and Pearl—if Man—meant nothing in the scheme of the universe?

Where's the beef?

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Leaving aside the consideration that academics might always favour poetic difficulty—it makes them indispensable—

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

does not pertain to the businessman. To him everything is relevant. He is the true Renaissance man. And this is why I gave myself to the pursuit of knowledge in every conceivable realm, from history and geography to chemistry and meteorology.

If kings do not see you, they forget you. Even though nothing in the realm is done without you, kings think they do it all themselves.

Every absent day he loses advantage. If kings do not see you they forget you. Even though nothing in the realm is done without you, kings think they do it all themselves.

It was all so long ago and Stalin doesn't matter any more. Stalin lost his chic before you were born. Sex is always chic.

I've never been in style, so I can never go out of style.

You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what's current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.

It is not just the information that is important. How it is presented is equally important.

It is hardly surprising that the wizened, androgynous, admittedly prudish little lady in the tricorne would come to seem irrelevant, even embarrassing, within the youth culture of the late 1960s and '70s.

There are numerous oral stories which tell of what it means, what it feels like, to be present while your history is erased before your eyes, dismissed as irrelevant, ignored or rendered as the lunatic ravings of drunken old people

When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don't think there are too many films coming out these days that we're going to look at in the future and say, 'This is one of the great ones.'