Quotes About Significance

The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning. The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end.

Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants.

People clamor to tell their stories in words. This doesn't make them writers, Nor does it make their stories matter.

Spider names look silly. But this ''Accord'' group is a young culture. Their names are still mostly meaningful in their daily language.

The person you became with her is worth being.

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one other person.

Don't you feel it? History is thrusting us into the path of … something. I don't know. Really, I'm not sure how to explain, but can't you sense it? The world is being tossed into chaos, and there are just us select few who see it, who can do something, and if we don't … well, I'm not sure the gods will forgive us. That we would be offered this chance and then cower. I can't believe it. I won't. We must rise to the occasion.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

I once dreamed of launching revolutions, sparking movements, mobilizing the masses, and changing everything. Now I've learned the beauty and profound significance of simply loving my neighbor.

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

One's fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one's genitals, or one's children.

There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important.

It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.

I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

If I had to choose my best day ever, my finest hour, my wildest dream come true, mine would be you.

The best way to make somebody feel important is to try to assassinate them.

You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me," I began. "Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me.

Sometimes, homely things are done for the best reasons in the world and thus achieve a beauty of their own.

You matter because you are you and there is no other person in this world who could ever take your place.

In this business, it is about making an impact.

Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure