Important Quotes - Page 222

I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.

I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.

I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.

It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within.

We're at a period where our society is at the end of a cycle, where all the sudden the values that we were told were important don't seem to have that much importance nowadays.

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported only by aptness of expression, tone and manner.

It's important to realize that the images are everywhere, not just where you want or expect them to be.

I don't make records for this medium with which we're going to sell it. The selling of it can never be more important than what you're actually making. There's too much of that in the world - in everybody's world, not just in music. There's too much, "Are you hip to this kind of stuff?" "Hey, this is cool." "Are you hip to it, because this is what we're selling today?" I think it's bullshit.

Your imagination is your most important tool, as an actor, as cheesy as that sounds.

I've gone to Yaddo many times, I've worked at the Rockefeller Foundation's Center for Scholars and Artists in Bellagio. That these are places of beauty and of changed landscape is helpful - but far more important for me is that they offer what I feel as a monastic luxury: undisturbed time.

The idea that you can contribute is really important, especially for a kid.

Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.

Science had given mankind many gifts, and she valued it. But the one important thing it had taken away was the value of subjective, personal experience. That had been replaced with the idea that only measurable and testable concepts had value. But humans didn't work that way.

Unfortunately, the world continues, history continues to produce tragedies. And it is very important that they be documented in a humane way, in a compelling way.

Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.

What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation

I like to plan everything out and know exactly what we're doing. It's always important to me to work with a cast and a crew that not only I respect their talent but I really like them as people.

The things which cannot be adequately represented by words are more important than those which can.

No role in life is more important than to be a good mother.

Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.

What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important.

It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.

What I don't write is as important as what I write.