Important Quotes - Page 209

My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

In fashion, the most important thing is to move on.

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain

It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.

It's part of my game to occasionally send a message, one that may be unpopular to the outside world, but can be important for the team.

No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!

A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.

The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.

I try to find stories that I would think that everyone would find interesting, and just a good entertaining story, and then if I can find a story that has a raison d'etre behind it that I feel is important then that's the best for me.

So when people go to the park this summer, they are not going to have the same quality of a visit. There is not going to be a ranger out on the trail to tell them about the important cultural and historic areas within the Olympic National Park.

Of course you can more easily recognise the outsiders because they have a different skin color. But let us take for instance the relationship between the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant majority in America and the negroes. What is important here is that the negroes were the descendants from slaves and were excluded from power, while the white majority kept them at bay, kept them down, kept them where they are. If the negroes in the future became assimilated and acquired equal power access, if there were a black president, then many of these things would change.

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

The two countries [Pakistan and India] have already come close to nuclear confrontation twice and this could get worse. So dealing with the relationship with India is extremely important.

Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name upon every trifling occasion . . . . To prevent this profanation, such passages are selected from scripture, as contain some important precepts of morality and religion, in which that sacred name is seldom mentioned. Let sacred things be appropriated to sacred purposes.

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.

I'm like the female version of George Clooney in 'Up in the Air.' I have to have an eye mask, and Amore Pacific has this cream face mask that's moisturizing. Moisture is so important in the stuffy, dry air on a plane.

Reusing and recycling our materials is the most important thing we can do.

[To become a poet] The most important thing is to pay attention. The next would probably be to read; it's so important to pay attention. It keeps you from being bored, and I might add it keeps you from being boorish.

Goals help you keep in perspective what's really important so you don't spend all of your time doing what seems urgent.

Only when your memories are more important to you than your goals are you old.

I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it.

Branding is quite an important thing. As an artist, you want to be able to explore facets of yourself.