Quotes About Significance

You look at passers-by in Rome and think, 'Do they know what they have here?' You can say the same about Philadelphia. Do people know what went on here?

It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?

We're not accustomed to judging things on philosophical importance.

Every time I look at my mobile phone before bed it seems to say 22:22. I thought that has to mean something in the future. Ironically when it was happening I ended up scoring 22 goals for Coventry.

To photograph is to confer importance.

I don't own photograph albums - the pictures that are important to me are etched in my mind.

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.

It's not every day you get to create a band like the Sex Pistols, and what it changed, on a musical level. I love that we've done something that was important.

Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.

When one looks at Nature through the glass walls of the Farnsworth House, it takes on a deeper significance than when one stands outside. More of Nature is thus expressed - it becomes part of a greater whole.

I just wanna be relevant.

When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. I don't wanna get ideas above my station, but why shouldn't this be comparable? Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later, and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.

Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don't really understand its full significance.

Asher means 'happy and blessed' which embodies my eldest. Caleb means 'stubborn and tenacious dog' and I can't even tell you how much that is my little boy! It was a useful warning.

My father was a soldier, which meant that he was a warrior, which meant that he was important. My mother rode a horse and sang in the Governor-General's band, so that made her important as well.

The Warriors getting Kevin Durant, yes you won championships, which I guess is all that matters, I think at the end, and I'm just saying this as someone from the outside, it almost looks like it diminishes everything that was accomplished before him. It takes the allure of the Warriors away.

Working on 'Clone Wars,' it was always canon.

Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama.

Why did I choose Washington among offers from other cities? Because it is the capital of the world.

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

It was astonishing how much meaning could be crammed into a single word. How did such words not crumble under their own weight?

You were naming my life, which is similar but not identical to saving. We name something to make it real, to give it meaning. You can name my life and I might still die. Those aren't mutually exclusive.