Quotes About Significance

Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.

Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong.

There is always going to be a Super Bowl winner, a league MVP, a Super Bowl MVP, great defenses and offenses. But I think to be part of real change - you talk about athletes like Muhammad Ali or Bill Russell - when you are able to do things that truly affect not just the game, but people everywhere, you find true meaning.

Nobody gives a damn about the Merrimac. You know how it is. Winners write the history books.

It meant as much to me as winning the Oscar.

My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.

Tests are special, the format closest to my heart.

I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'

Hidden in a long text, there are perhaps three lines that count.

The text is a limited field of possible constructions.

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time.

Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.

Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

If we do not, as historians, write the history of great events as well as the small stories that make up the past, others will, and they will not necessarily do it well.

Who will remember Anna Wintour in the history of fashion? No one.

1926 was the most significant year. Looking back, it seems that it was not just a year in the sense of time. It was a year of great realisation or awareness. It seems to me that at certain times of the history of man, the understanding of certain situations ripens.

When the history of the 20th century is written, there are going to be some pretty obscure people who are entitled to sainthood. And they're not going to be well-known.

If you look at the history of the letter in the novel, small changes in the British postal service became really significant because of how quickly people are suddenly able to communicate, and letters actually arrive at the intended time, and they arrive to the correct recipient. All of this is really important to a plot.

In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

I'm obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight. I think the evolution of insect flight is perhaps one of the most important events in the history of life. Without insects, there'd be no flowering plants. Without flowering plants, there would be no clever, fruit-eating primates giving TED Talks.

That time, making 'Disco Pigs,' was kind of the most important period of my life. The people I met there remain my closest friends.

I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'.