Quotes About Significance

One person's data is another person's noise.

If the world is a book, are you the hero, or just a walk-on part?

Only, I'm sure I remember you, because you were riding along down the street on a great big white horse, and people were cheering like you were somebody important.' Poldarn grinned. 'Do I look important?' 'No,' the young man said. 'But neither do a lot of important people.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather in what he longs to attain.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

i felt emotions overtake me, turning my limbs into water. i felt as if kian had wrapped his whole being around me, so tightly, hugging me tightly with the ends of his soul. i could feel my heart beating quicker, my breath growing shorter as i signed.

Mothers are so important. I came across a cable network exec who once told me they don't matter. Well, I disagree. Mothers matter a lot. Without mothers, there wouldn't be people. And mothers watch a lot of the programs on that cable network. No wonder why that network is barely surviving. - Strong by Kailin Gow on Mothers, Knowing Your Viewers, and Strong Leadership

Jack's kissing me because he wants to, desperately, as though his life depends on it. Because I'm as important to him right then as he is to me.", Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow.

There are some things that it is worth taking risks to protect. It all means too much. Too much for us now. Too much for the future. Too much for everything.", FADE by Kailin Gow

So long as I remember the things that count. ", FADE by Kailin Gow

Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal. The tiny incidents of daily routine are as much a commentary of racial ideals as the highest flight of philosophy or poetry.

The value of a thing is never so poignantly precious as when we contemplate the loss of it

How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans.

This is the worst of our ways of remembering--this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope of releasing a gush of piping-hot symbolism.

You meant so much to me... that I couldn't even say I love you.

The only worthwhile watch in the world is not the one which counts Up, but the one which counts Down. Not the watch which tells you what time It Is. But the watch which tells you how much time you Have Left.

The lines I'm referring to, Lewis, are that Triumph and Disaster are the same. They're both impostors because they are momentary. More important is becoming a man of convictions. Lasting joy comes from that.

It is so delightful to be of enough consequence to be arrested

I can't imagine making something that is made only to be scary. For me, the darkness and scary material has to have meaning attached to it, or I can't invest the time and energy it takes to write and script or make a movie. It has to mean something.

Being a teenager anyway is incredibly intense and every moment is invested with ferocious importance.

The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

Numbers have always been massive to me. I was told at an early age that if you affect the game, and if your numbers are good in terms of goals, assists, chances created, the manager finds it hard to bring you off or to not involve you.

I prefer doing strong roles irrespective of duration, and it is almost impossible for me to take up a role that has nothing much to contribute to the script.

Small issues are really just large ones that haven't been accorded the requisite attention.