Important Quotes

I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.

[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.

I don't see how you can create and not have the feeling that it is the most important, all-consuming thing.

I think it's really important that we get rid of the idea that protest will create change.

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.

If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient.

The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and its important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.

One of my Miss America judges called me a "God-clutcher" way back when because I spoke about my faith being an important part of my life during my interview.

I don't need to put extra pressure on myself right now. The important thing is for me to stay healthy, in practice, and just keep on the hours. You just never know when it's going to happen for you.

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.

So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.

One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be.

Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.

To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities . . . than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.

The truth is more important to me than anything - my personal wealth or health or any of these things. I think that it's not so difficult for me to say what I'm saying.

Whether it's good for anything or not, cool or totally uncool, in the final analysis what's most important is what you can't see but can feel in your heart.

What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have

You must make the main thing in your picture appear most important. If anyone tells me my hat is more important than my head - by God I'm taking off my hat.

Attitudes are every bit as important as aptitudes.

Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.

One of the most important thing in families, both for children and spouses, is never to close off possibilities - particularly never to make demands or threats.

If the stories don't come from the inside out, then Bridget [Jones] is not being true to herself and it's very important to me that she stays that way.

THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me

The important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as they've beginning to have with autism.

The most important history is the history we make today.

The thing to do with money is to put it back into yourself, into your work, into the thing that is important, into whatever you are so much interested in that it is more important than money.

One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing. It should be at the service of expressing the form.

To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important.

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.

Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.

And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.

You're not always going to make the right decisions, but you have to be guided by what you think is important.

I think that any important educational goal can be realized via several routes.

Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.

China and the United States have major influence in international affairs and shoulder important responsibilities in upholding world peace and promoting common development.

One of the most important of all the causes of great inequality of income is the inheritance of a great fortune by a small minority.

It's a luxury to have so much time, especially with someone so important and busy. You have to get a feel for the person.

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.

I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences.

Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them.

I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.

I was more of a Star Wars kid, actually. I always thought Star Trek was a lot of talk, and it felt a little self-important. It was hard for me to get into it.

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.

Ideas are always more important than money.

The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.