Important People Quotes

#1. In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.

Bjork

#2. Of course, parents are the most important people in a child's life.

Hillary Clinton

#3. While visiting places in the South with my heart really open, I realized how important people in certain geographical spots were to me, what they symbolize, how I'm still connected to them and how much they are a part of my ancestry, both musical and real.

Rosanne Cash

#4. God's Kingdom isn't divided into areas of important people and areas of little people. In God's sight, everyone's needful.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#5. The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#6. As a manager you are important sometimes and you make mistakes, but the most important people are your staff and your players. Never call me the special one.

Rafael Benitez

#7. Life is too precious to spend it with important people.

Harry Partch

#8. Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

Tabitha Soren

#9. We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world.

Studs Terkel

#10. Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people.

Brian Tracy

#11. A junior high sports bus was, in the same vein as some fancier modes of passenger transport - limousines, private jets, coaches, whatever - a place where the important people, the king and queen, sat in the back.

A.D. Aliwat

#12. Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.

Roma Tearne

#13. The easy assumption that we have remembered the most important people and events and have preserved the most valuable evidence is immediately trumped by our inability to know what we have forgotten.

Wendell Berry

#14. In other words, introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.

Susan Cain

#15. You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#16. I thought he should have realized sooner that important people don't show up very often, and you should hold on to them when they do. Maybe I was smarter than he was all along, because that was something I'd always known.

Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

#17. A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

Fred Allen

#18. It's really easy for us to miss each other in this big, big world... People I've met after a long time of looking; my important people.

Kyoichi Katayama

#19. Time to say thank you and farewell! trills Effie at my elbow. It's one of those moments when I just love her compulsive punctuality. We collect Cinna and Portia, and she escorts us around to say good-bye to important people, then herds us to the door.

Suzanne Collins

#20. It wasn't that Helga and I were crazy about Nazis. I can't say, on the other hand, that we hated them. They were a big enthusiastic part of our audience, important people in the society in which we lived.
They were people.
Only in retrospect can I think of them as trailing slime behind.

Kurt Vonnegut

#21. I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.

Nana Mouskouri

#22. I want to interview the most important people in the world and have everyone in America the next day going, 'Did you see that?'

Piers Morgan

#23. The one thing I have never been afraid of is standing before important people and speaking my mind. I represent women who may never have the opportunity to go to the UN or meet with a president. I'm never afraid to speak truth to power.

Leymah Gbowee

#24. I know how much respect I have for people of all different faiths, but especially for my family, who are the most important people in my life, and who are still practicing, and deeply religious.

Stephen Karam

#25. My management style is there is no such thing as non-important people in the company.

Mickey Drexler

#26. Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

John Mason Brown

#27. In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort because important people, vocal people, or great numbers of people agree with us. Nor do we derive comfort if they don't.

Warren Buffett

#28. Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.

Henry Rollins

#29. They're the sons and daughters of important people, and to them, the war is just another place to visit.

Victoria Aveyard

#30. People you associate with or choose to deal with are the most important people who will shape your destiny.

Abhishek Ratna

#31. The idea the actors are the most important people on a film set I think is very stupid. Actors are the most replaceable people there. There are literally millions of us. There's very few people that can operate a steady-cam. The numbers are a lot, lot fewer for that, you know?

Daniel Radcliffe

#32. Producing obituaries is a way of creating a legacy to remember important people of our times and their contributions. No matter whose obituary it is, I look for something inspirational about each person.

Laurie Nadel

#33. There are a lot of self important people who make you believe they're artistes and high on the intelligence quotient and I've sat down and listened to them and just been bored.

George Hamilton

#34. I don't feel an obligation to give everyone a hard time, but when they're important people, it's fun.

Don Rickles

#35. There used to be a time when the idea of heroes was important. People grew up sharing those myths and legends and ideals. Now they grow up sharing McDonalds and Disneyland.

Bob Dylan

#36. I think the Occupy movement is absolutely fantastic; in my opinion, it's probably one of the most important people's movements of the 21st century and the 20th century. The trouble is that nobody really wants to support what they represent. They are too 'grassroots' for their own good.

David Lloyd

#37. This isn't about what is ... it's about what people think is. It's all imaginary anyway. That's why it's important. People only fight over imaginary things.

Neil Gaiman

#38. The really important people in TV are not the directors; they're the writers.

Mary Harron

#39. Important people are much more interesting when they are drunk and seem much more like human beings.

Marilyn Monroe

#40. Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.

Jackie Tabick

#41. I met all these important people and did all these stories, but I always had such excellent producers and assistants. I could show up to interview a world leader or a criminal and they would have things so well prepared anyone could have done it. It wasn't about 'me,' it was about 'us.'

Mike Wallace

#42. The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!

William J. Clinton

#43. When I let go of trying to be everything to everyone, I had much more time, attention, love, and connection for the important people in my life.

Brene Brown

#44. Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.

Brian Tracy

#45. Learn not to be intimidated by important people.

Orit Gadiesh

#46. Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity.

Sheryl Sandberg

#47. While most people in TV, radio, and the press have treated me wonderfully, some of the most important people want to pretend I don't exist.

Harry Browne

#48. The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at ... good developers like working with each other. And they ... they reinforce each other's skills.

Bill Gates

#49. Dress for success. Image is very important. People judge you by the way you look on the outside

Brian Tracy

#50. Thing is,' Sis confided, 'all the important people here look ordinary and the really fancy ones are usually broke or on the make. I'll tell you, you're in an upside-down world now,' she said, shaking her head. 'Takes a while, but you'll get used to it.

Kathleen Tessaro

#51. The important people in your lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart.

Rachel Cohn

#52. Personal's not the same as important. People just think it is.

Terry Pratchett

#53. For 1,300 days of Sarajevo's drama, important people in the world who were supposed to act kept their eyes closed, ... But not you. You were not silent. Your voice was clear.

Alijia Izetbegovic

#54. When the urgent crowds out the important, people urgently accomplish nothing of value.

Orrin Woodward

#55. Through words we come to know the other person
and to be known. This knowing is at the heart of our deepest longings for intimacy and connection with others. How relationships unfold with the most important people in our lives depends on courage and clarity in finding voice.

Harriet Lerner

#56. The perception is that more important people watch news in the evenings than in the mornings.

Reese Schonfeld

#57. The main thing it usually ends up doing is revealing that the things they were arguing about weren't all that important. People often test to decide which color drapes are best, only to learn that they forgot to put windows in the room.

Steve Krug

#58. The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that.

Rachel Cohn

#59. A missionary deals with all the important people of the community, but he is never really one of them.

Henry R. Luce

#60. Colors are important. People are in clinical depression whether they are on medication or not. Neutrals are another form of medication.

Alexandra Stoddard

#61. Very important people have told me that they prefer good listeners to good talkers, but the ability to listen seems rarer than almost any other good trait.

Dale Carnegie

#62. People kill very important people to change the season in their life.

Allan Wesler

#63. Some of the most important people in my life would be shocked to learn that they were role models. They weren't celebrities, or even particularly accomplished. But they had some quality that I admired, that made me want to be like them.

Donn Moomaw

#64. Nasty. We're meeting a bunch of important people today, and you're supposed to be our new director. You can't show up flaunting how much you crave cock and are scared of soap.

Erica Chilson

#65. I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness.

Patty Duke

#66. The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are important. People don't think about things like that. I feel like something special is going to happen in this town.

Lamar Odom

#67. May you live in interesting times and come to the attention of important people.

Eric Frank Russell

#68. It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.

Zahi Hawass

#69. Everybody, every tradesman that worked for Shafin or built my house got fully paid, well paid. Everybody got paid. I would like that to be said if I could because I haven't said it before, and it's important. People kind of think we left all these plumbers or electricians without getting paid.

Shane Filan

#70. Being famous is not the same as being important. A lot of important people aren't famous, and a lot of famous people aren't important.

Arlo Guthrie

#71. When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.

D.H. Lawrence

#72. We all need to know how to cook. I can buy a chicken and have many meals come from it. Is it affordable? Yes. Cheap? No. I want to pay the farmers the right price for food. They deserve it. They are the most important people in the country besides our teachers.

Alice Waters

#73. I worked with him for years. I still think Kanye [West] is one of the most important people in music in the last ten years.

A-Trak

#74. Actually, I love pissing people off. Important people, rich people, dangerous people. I'm an equal-opportunity pisser-offer.

Jennifer Estep

#75. All the people who run agencies, all the important people in agencies have taken communication courses, marketing courses, advertising courses, and courses basically teach advertising as a science, and advertising is so far from a science it isn't even funny. Advertising is an art.

George Lois

#76. Perhaps the most important people that I should photograph are the people who don't have a voice.

Platon

#77. The best start-ups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of cults. The biggest difference is that cults tend to be fanatically wrong about something important. People at a successful start-up are fanatically right about something those outside it have missed.

Peter Thiel

#78. I really do think artists are the most important people on the planet, and if what I do is a utility and helps them, then that makes me happy. I want to be helpful.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#79. [M]ost people offend God by passing judgment on the things others do, especially important people, not knowing the reasons why they are doing what they do; for when one does not know the primary cause of some matter, what conclusions can he draw from it?

Vincent De Paul

#80. When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.

William Greider

#81. What Cable is up to is not something that can be done quietly. It will raise the interest of some pretty important people and leaders in the X-Men community will have to step in at some point in the storyline.

Jeph Loeb

#82. The most important people in this man's life - the people who have mattered to him most - aren't my Mother or his wives or me or Anna or Allie. The people who matter most are the people in his head. That is loneliness.

Matthew Norman

#83. Over the years I have met a lot of important people, but no one as important as Elvis Presley.

Art Buchwald

#84. Funny, how some of the most important people of your life can be dismissed as inconsequential, just because you believe the bullshit they've spent their entire lives selling.

Amy Lane

#85. The most important people at Liverpool Football Club are the people who want to be here.

Kenny Dalglish

#86. If it isn't for the writing, we've got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know it.

Irving Thalberg

#87. We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about ordinary people.

Jonathan Kozol

#88. A VIP area is nothing without not-so-important people.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#89. People tend to become what the most important people in their lives think they will become.

John C. Maxwell

#90. I see my boys about 10 days every month. And, yes, they are the most important people in my life.

Arpad Busson

#91. I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

Marilyn Monroe

#92. Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.

Clifford Stoll

#93. The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs.

Gordon Parks

#94. Life's too short to spend with important people.

Harry Partch

#95. It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.

Laura Marling

#96. It's funny how you can grow away from your friends, when just a few years ago they were the most important people in your life.

Judy Blume

#97. You don't think that room downstairs was made by the Devil, or his wife?" "I don't want to know who made it," Tammy said. "But I know who fed it; who made it important. People. Just like you and me. Addicted to the place.

Clive Barker

#98. Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.

Ben Casnocha

#99. It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.

Seymour Hersh

#100. Most people, in committing a suicidal act, are just as muddled as when they do anything important under emotional stress. Carefully planned acts of suicide are as rare as carefully planned acts of homicide.

Erwin Stengel