Quotes About Significance

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

The world forgets about people who are not useful.

The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

It was extremely useful to grow up in front of the camera. It gives the camera no significance. I think it helped me have perspective on things. The attraction that Hollywood can have, I feel like I'm over that. Instead I just concentrate on acting.

Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at.

There is nothing useless to men of sense.

I think my cultural work is more important than the adventures I did. The adventures are not important for human beings. It's the conquering of the useless.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

I will never do a usual film with song and dance; the character has to be important.

I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.

I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason.

If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in vain. Great poets might expect the whole body of their work, but most of us - well, I would settle for a handful.

We've got ourselves into a very vain state of society and there's more important things.

I felt invisible in my family, and I wanted to be significant like my brothers were significant. I wanted my parents to pay attention, so I went out into the world with that driving me, that grasping, that seeking validation.

All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.

Nicknames are the most essential in life, more valuable than names.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness makes goodness much more serviceable.

If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique.

What my work is about is, 'Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?'