Irrelevancies Quotes

#1. Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

#2. What tended to happen, to Colin and Mary at least, was that subjects were not explored so much as defensively reiterated, or forced into elaborate irrelevancies, and suffused with irritability.

Ian McEwan

#3. My mind is not like a neat and tidy garden; it is a vast and untidy wilderness, full of irrelevancies, but with lots of places to wander and get lost.

Roopa Farooki

#4. If you want to make something clear to someone, you mustn't forget the main point, the most important thing, and if you bring in something else as an illustration you mustn't wander off into endless irrelevancies.

Anton Webern

#5. The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends ...

Max Beerbohm

#6. Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#7. Time used to do irrelevancies can be channeled into something productive instead

Sunday Adelaja

#8. This is the greatest mystery of the human mind
the inductive leap. Everything falls into place, irrelevancies relate, dissonance becomes harmony, and nonsense wears a crown of meaning. But the clarifying leap springs from the rich soil of confusion, and the leaper is not unfamiliar with pain.

John Steinbeck

#9. America is not a country, it is a world.

Oscar Wilde

#10. Too many are focused on rewriting the past, invent the future!

Philippe Kahn

#11. I would have liked to be on the streets of Manhattan during 9/11. My working theory is that people are much kinder to each other in times of trauma than we tend to portray in our stories.

Claire Cameron

#12. You have to be loose enough so that when you listen to what's coming, you can follow it. In that sense I am improvising, but I don't think I'm experimenting. I have a problem with the whole term "experimental music."

Z'EV

#13. Be ever more obedient to God and He will save you.

Pachomius The Great

#14. WH Auden: "The first criterion of success in any human activity, the necessary preliminary, whether to scientific discovery or artistic vision, is intensity of attention or, less pompously, love.

ESPN Cricinfo

#15. In a foolish and loud manner he had argued politics; he had been rude in his disagreeing, and only the adroit tact of his host had sufficed to save the evening. How much I have to learn, Childan thought. They're so graceful and polite. And I - the white barbarian. It is true.

Philip K. Dick

#16. My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That's enough, I myself choose my way

Ali Shariati

#17. Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

Barbara Deming

#18. News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.

Lord Northcliffe

#19. When a man has a flower in his life he builds a house.

Halldor Laxness