Quotes About Significance

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.

One thing is for sure: a World Cup without me is nothing to watch.

The truth is that I don't have a favourite goal. I remember important goals more than I do favourite goals, like goals in the Champions League where I had the opportunity to have scored in both finals I have played in. Finals in the World Cup or Copa del Rey are the ones that have stayed with me for longer or that I remember more.

Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many.

The World Cup has its own space that needs to be respected.

To actually play a game, where you are in the World Cup, there is significance to it, the point differential matters, all these things kind of add up.

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.

Our reality is narrow, confined, and fleeting. Whatever we think is important right now, in our mundane lives, will no longer be important against a grander sense of time and space.

Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.

You never know when the timing is going to hit in a such a way that you're going to make a difference.

J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny bit part. Up front, they said, 'You're very significant in the last one.' But significant could mean a lot of things. That could just mean a significant plot point. Doesn't necessarily equal big part.

I became obsessed with making more and more tiny things. I think I was trying to find a way of compensating for my embarrassment at having learning difficulties: people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant 'small' could be.

I can read significance into tiny, tiny things. If I'd met someone 10 years ago and not seen them again, and then I suddenly bumped into them, I'd feel that that was 'meant,' or there's a fate, you know?

The concept of what we're looking for is so important. The fact that the effect is tiny is just our misfortune.

I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that.

If you're not the brightest or if you're not great at sports, or if you're not artistic, then you've got to find a way to make your mark; otherwise you're just this tiny little insignificant dot. I didn't want to be insignificant, so I made people laugh.

If you look at the map, there's Thrace, Greece, Bulgaria, and there's tiny Gallipoli. It is such a small part of the whole peninsula, and yet you only hear about this little tiny bit.

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank.

Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution.

It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.

You have to have a strong title. It's got to say something.

It means a lot to defend my title.