Germane Quotes

#1. Am Anfang war Gott? It may have been true, but it was not germane.

Stephen Craig

#2. Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara ... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.

Saul Alinsky

#3. Now, if they're there to talk about something specifically, and I determine through my own editorial judgment, that another area isn't germane, or isn't an important part of it, that's something else. But we never agree to anything in advance, absolutely not.

Katie Couric

#4. Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'

David Bowie

#5. Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards

Andrei Tarkovsky

#6. Walk in this faithless grass with studious tread,
Lest mice, weasels, germane beasts, too soon
The tall hat and eyes, the fierce feet, for dead
Descry, and fix you prone in their revelling moon.

Allen Tate

#7. Who would not want an illness that has among its symptoms elevated and expansive mood, inflated self-esteem, abundance of energy, less need for sleep, intensified sexuality, and- most germane to our argument here-"sharpened and unusually creative thinking" and "increased productivity"?

Kay Redfield Jamison

#8. I wanted to let form lead my thinking, and repetition always confronts you with the interesting problem of how to break out of a cycle that seems so deterministic, which was germane to the story's concerns.

Catherine Brady

#9. I think the only thing for me, the tricky thing with the footnotes, is that they are an irritant, and they require a little extra work, and so they either have to be really germane or they have to be kind of fun to read.

David Foster Wallace

#10. I think Oprah who is the height of aspiration and inspiration recognizes something in me that is germane.

Rosie O'Donnell

#11. I guess I'd rather have a truthful neighbor who says he hates me than a lyin' one, who claims he loves me.

David Hopper

#12. My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

Carl Hiaasen

#13. The people that does not care for its children or grandparents is a people that has not future. Because it doesn't have the strength or the memory to go forward ...

Pope Francis

#14. Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit

Ezra Pound

#15. Your every breath of life is so precious, so don't waste any moment of life while sitting idol.

Wiz Khalifa

#16. I once terminated a partnership with a chap who proved
unreliable. As a matter of fact, I terminated him.

Edward Bernds

#17. It is impossible not to make mistakes during a war.

Roma Tearne

#18. I'm not the type to cut back on hot showers, but there's no harm in hot water when it's warmed by the sun.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#19. I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it's definitely happening,' but they don't feel that they can do anything about it; they don't even think 'Well let's stop it!'

Vivienne Westwood

#20. Sam Snead did to the tee-shot what Roger Bannister did to the four-minute mile.

Byron Nelson

#21. Thoughts - just mere thoughts - are as powerful as electric batteries - as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#22. I went to my agent and told them, 'I want to be on another Disney show.'

Kyrie Irving

#23. I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.

Anne Frank