Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

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

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that’s important.

I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.

The Second Amendment is just as important as all the other Amendments.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn’t the thing.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

I tend to feel if people say they’re going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It’s a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

As a British driver, you get compared to Lewis and I get that. But when he came to McLaren, they were doing well and had a championship-winning car. I’m in a very different situation so I don’t compare myself to his stats.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

‚Nation‘ was one that I’d have killed myself if I hadn’t written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

There’s no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television’s much better than movies.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.

Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

It’s an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important… and to feel that you’re being published by people who really don’t get it and/or don’t really care.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.