Quotes About Relevance

Paradoxically, as the utopia metastasizes and the society ossifies, elections become less relevant. More and more decisions are made by masterminds and their experts, who substitute their self-serving and dogmatic judgments—which are proclaimed righteous and compassionate—for the individual's self-interests and best interests.

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye.

I still think funny, and people young and old still come and see me. That's flattering. The day comes that they stop coming, then I'll know that it's time to retire to the Jewish ranch.

Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue.

I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important.

If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.

After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.

If you don't have it in your part, leave it out, because there is enough missing already.

On the key to a successful Twitter account: Write the things that you think are funny and that's what's gonna click with people.

It's strange how interesting your dreams are, but when someone tries to tell you their dream you're just like "WHATEVER! Why don't you send me an e-mail so I can delete it?"

If something is very, very funny but possibly controversial, if it's truly funny, then it's worth doing. Things aren't worth doing for the sake of being controversial.

You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind.

Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.

I don't think the show would be funny to you if you didn't already have a base of information.

It's very funny to see a Justin Bieber song done by a bunch of grown men.

Is the diameter of your index finger equal to or greater than the diameter of a super absorbency tampon?

I am interested in circulating past iconography in the present in order to get to the future.

This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not so interested in nostalgia. I'm interested in the future.

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

We have to keep transforming ourselves to stay relevant for the future.

Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future.