Quotes About Relevance

One hears all sorts of things. The question is whether they matter.

The News of the World no longer exists. How nice to realise that even the most offensive things will eventually require a footnote to explain what they were.

The meaning of something is its connection to something else

Because history is not the background—history is the stage! And you are on the stage! Oh, how sickening is your appalling ignorance of your own times!

I didn't know how Douglas and Mickey felt about the news, but the Earth seemed so far away now it didn't matter anymore. Maybe that was the wrong way to feel, but that's what I felt anyway.

Nobody was anything anymore.

Modern culture's insatiable appetite for photo-ops keeps the not-so-accomplished Tinkerbelles from gracefully slipping into obscurity where they should have remained in the first place.

The prospect of death in autumn, she said, was irrelevant next to its happy recognition of its participation in the life of the tree itself.

People no longer rely on the Bible as either their standard for living or their source of truth. In fact, few people even bother to read it anymore.

You owe it to your public to remain fuckable.

But whether or not you are here, you are here—because these words are for you, and they wouldn't exist if you weren't here in some way.

With all due respect, if you're forty-three, then I'm a fetus.

What i want is for what i want to actually matter.

These things do not matter except that they matter to us. We have given them meaning In the same way we have given each other a meaning.

Even though the own world doesn't matter to her, she matter to the world

Must interests be interesting? That is, must they be interesting to someone other than yourself?

I collected their papers. The ones that blew into Brooklyn. They were just there at first. I didn't even know what they were. But once I did, I went all over the place, picking them up. I don't know what to do with them. I mean, they're meaningless now, but they still exist. You can't throw out something like that. You can't make them gone like that.

You can be separate from a thing and still care about it. If I wanted to detach completely, I would move my body away. I would stop the conversation mid-sentence. I would leave the bed. Instead, I hover over it for a second. I glance off in another direction. But I always glance back at you.

Ik wil dat ze kon zien hoe geslagen hij is. De uitdrukking op zijn gezicht, zijn leven staat op instorten. Want dan zou ze misschien beseffen, al het was het maar een fractie van een seconde, dat hoewel de wereld haar niet interesseert, de wereld wel geïnteresseerd is in haar.

even though the world doesn't matter to her, she matters to the world

But whether or not you are here, you are here—because these words are for you, and they wouldn't exist if you weren't here in some way.

had to know if this zodiac cycle was still at work today. It didn't take long to discover that these cycle connections between

Some dreams matter. Most don't. Often it can be hard to know which might be which.

Many believe that WMATA planned a station for Georgetown, then withdrew its plans in response to opposition from politically influential residents who feared that the subway would bring undesirables—the poor, the criminal, the nonwhite, and the tacky—to their exclusive neighborhood. In fact, although Georgetown residents did oppose a transit station, their attitude was essentially irrelevant, for a Georgetown station was never seriously considered.