Quotes About Relevance

Me parece que esto es lo que busca la memoria: no en sí la permanencia, sino una relevancia permanente.

I read, therefore, I matter.

What was the purpose of being wrapped like a present if you had no feelings for the person you were being given to?

Thus he illustrated a perennial problem of new theological thinking: it is all too soon forgotten as a new generation arises, one that 'knows not Joseph'.

It wasn't a practical thing, so it became obsolete when we went to Sameness.

Your father means that you used a very generalized word, so meaningless that it's become almost obsolete," his mother explained carefully.

Age is a meaningless commodity in most instances.

He looked as if it hadn't occurred to him that it might not matter.

CHARLIE (Incredulous) Matoseh, I don't believe it—that you can sit here, under this very roof where you learned to read and write—and deny the dedication of those who came here— TSHEMBE (Utter dismissal) I do not deny it. It is simply that the conscience, such as it is, of imperialism is Ã¢â'¬Â¦ irrelevant.

She knew that the world was not created to speak just to her, and yet, as with her son, sometimes things did.

It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant

Bayly, to say that he died down in the Guadaloupes. . .of

knowledge is cut off from the activity in which it has its meaning, and becomes a false abstraction.

Who's Mary Bopkins? asked Mrs. Jewls. Was she famous? Why? asked Miss Zarves. Does your class only study famous people? Do you think famous people are more important than people who aren't famous?

Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?

People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays. Which was not quite a correct statement, by the way.

People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.

Books contain everything worth knowing except what ultimately matters.

The next day is Saturday. Like that matters. Like every day isn't just about identical for somebody like me.

Nothing's worth anything unless somebody wants it.

but why should I waste wisdom on a river-turtle?

We all have our little secrets, no? And we all tell little lies, sometimes for innocent reasons. To make friends, for instance, or to avoid embarrassment. Or just to keep things simple. Sometimes the truth is too complicated to pass along in a short conversation or interview. And sometimes it's just irrelevant.

It made me sad when I caught myself pretending that everybody out there in cyberspace cared about what I thought, when really nobody gives a shit.30 And when I multiplied that sad feeling by all the millions of people in their lonely little rooms, furiously writing and posting to their lonely little pages that nobody has time to read because they're all so busy writing and posting,31 it kind of broke my heart.

Feeling is the important part. You don't have to make a big deal about it.