Quotes About Significance

Here we are, worrying about whether we're thin enough or whether our bottom looks too big in this pair of trousers or even whether or not I should wear a hat - does it really matter in comparison to the important things that are going on in the world?

Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.

Worst case scenario, nothing I do has any value or purpose, but if I can make someone laugh, I'm at least as useful as a piece of quiche would be.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.

A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

When information is infinite, individual pieces of information are worth nothing.

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

If you can't eat it, can't sleep under it, can't wear it or make something from it, it's not worth anything.

Regardless of whatever job you do, you want to see the importance of it or how it can be important. I think by inspiring the people that I come from - if I inspire anyone - would be worth it.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.

I've always felt that, when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn't say, 'Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations.' I've probably done 5,000. Am I any better at it than 10,000? He shook his head. It's just a different number on the tombstone.

Something that is very special today might not be special tomorrow, but to hold it, to grasp it, to keep it, to make it special, to elevate it from the ordinary, that's when you open up the champagne. To make it sparkle.

I think titles are extremely important for novels: They can set the tone, tip you off, serve as shorthand for what the essential contents are.

Magna Carta has become totemic. It is in the comedy of Tony Hancock, in the poetry of Kipling, never far from the front pages in a constitutional crisis.

I don't care about my legacy. It's too late. My enemies will create it, and they'll push it.

I think people make way too much of ratings.

I couldn't give away my husband's shoes. I could give away other things, but the shoes - I don't know what it was about the shoes, but a lot of people have mentioned to me that shoes took on more meaning than we generally think they do... their attachment to the ground, I don't know - but that did have a real resonance for me.

Graham was my father's second name, so I took Graham because Lukas Graham sounded cool.

To a lot of us, literature's eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing - like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture.