#importance

I've never really had time for romantic relationships. I have much more important things to worry about, like saving the world from zombies. ↗

— J. Cornell Michel

#apocalyptic #importance #important #relationship #relationships

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#importance #nervous-breakdowns #neurosis #perspective #self-perception

Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment. ↗

— William Goldman

#consequence #identity #importance #inquisitiveness #identity

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon. ↗

— Vanna Bonta

#celebrity #hubris #quote #self-importance #vanity

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#among #attach #discussion #full #hope

The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#assemble #attach #congresses #different #different opinions

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#discontent #enough #importance #justice #necessity

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#give #importance #inspiration #invented #poets

I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it. ↗

— Todd Barry

#certain #certain things #comedians #comic #else

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#ascribe #entitlement #frightening #gives #importance