#importance

The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language. ↗

— Steve Sabol

#bringing #importance #into #language #new

People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting. ↗

— Nate Silver

#clutch #desire #heart #hitting #importance

The Silent Service is all together too silent. It's important to begin to highlight the critical importance of the Silent Service to our national security. ↗

— Rob Simmons

#critical #highlight #importance #important #national

In my life Why do I give valuable time To people who don't care if I live or die ? ↗

— Morrissey

#importance-of-existence #life #death

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as Professor Trevelyan points out [in his History of England], she was locked up, beaten and flung about the room. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#clichés #dignity #equality #fiction #gender

In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have nver met with such a thing as a trifle yet. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#importance #trifles #experience

London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#lessons #literary-london #london #meaning #past

When my mother died and left me all alone, I began to realize that some things, like being loved, were more important than one's image, money, and accomplishments. ↗

— J. Matthew Nespoli

#being-loved #image #importance-of-love #love #money

Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift. ↗

— Marlene Van Niekerk

#importance #nature #nature

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