Pertinent Quotes

#1. Even if it's to my peril, I think it's pertinent to point out at this juncture that you're in a serious fucking jealous rage and I haven't even kissed you yet.

Kristen Ashley

#2. Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never became pop stars. I counter stated that very strongly, and I continue to do that.

Wynton Marsalis

#3. It may also be pertinent to ask whether a greater effort in the less expensive basic stages of research may not lead to reductions of effort in the far costlier stages of development and prototype construction.

Alan Tower Waterman

#4. There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.

Bob Schieffer

#5. Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?" asked Wang-mu.
"I think those are the pertinent virtues, yes," said Peter.
"Then let's do it. That's us in spades.

Orson Scott Card

#6. I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers.

Jim Butcher

#7. The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?

Victor Burgin

#8. It seems to me the only pertinent question is: cui bono? It is clear that the size of the privileged strata as a percentage of the whole has grown significantly under historical capitalism. And for these people, the world they know is better on the whole than any their earlier counterparts knew.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#9. It is frequently more rewarding merely to ask pertinent questions. It may get someone to go and look for an answer.

Prince Philip

#10. Realism in foreign policy means careful consideration of all aspects pertinent to the issue, before taking a decision. This is the only way you can move from where you are to someplace else.

Henry A. Kissinger

#11. Outside of interviews, I spend very little time thinking about myself. I spend time thinking about my writing and my children and other things that are pertinent.

Monica Ali

#12. The fine art of executive decision consists in not deciding questions that are not now pertinent, in not deciding prematurely, in not making decisions that cannot be made effective, and in not making decisions that others should make.

Chester Barnard

#13. I never liked the whole idea of [creating your own] background, if it's not pertinent, where the character lived as a child, and who I was and how I was. That never helped me in any way, so I don't even do that.

Maria Bello

#14. I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

Shirley Jackson

#15. Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question.

Raymond Geuss

#16. While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster.

Vladimir Nabokov

#17. When I say "our," I definitely mean all of America. It's not less pertinent for you because it comes from a Black person, just like a great achievement by an Anglo American is less important.

Wynton Marsalis

#18. I tried to steer the student newspaper toward more pertinent information instead of the usual gossip and bull.

Tom Bergeron

#19. I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

Bill Bryson

#20. Sometimes you can have a reputation for not being relatable and nice because you had a bad day once. That's the thing. You know, I think that's particularly pertinent with Justin [Bieber] because, like, you just forget how young he is.

James Corden

#21. The person ... in the grip of an old distress says things that are not pertinent, does things that don't work, fails to cope with the situation, and endures terrible feelings that have nothing to do with the present.

Harvey Jackins

#22. You go into the book store, there's the cut-out of Dr. Phil, and then the dreaded women's health section where every book, instead of the menopause book with the fanged Medusa head on the cover that might be more pertinent, you always see a flower and a poppy and a daisy and a stethoscope.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#23. When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring ... emotional relevance to the piece.

Oscar Hijuelos

#24. We could ask about anything; the only constraint was that the questionnaire should include at least one mention of fish, to make it pertinent to the mission of the department. This went on for many months, and we treated ourselves to an orgy of data collection.

Daniel Kahneman

#25. Part of the reason forward-thinking media networks like Twitter succeed is because people3 want to believe that every immaterial thing they do is pertinent by default; it's interesting because it happened to them, which translates as interesting to all.

Chuck Klosterman

#26. Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.

Jack Vance

#27. Maybe it's a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play's a little more pertinent now.

Edward Albee

#28. The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

Aldrich Ames

#29. [I]nstead of the usual "Why can't we make movies more like real life?" I think a more pertinent question is "Why can't real life be more like the movies?"

Ernie Pyle

#30. The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

Frank Chodorov

#31. They didn't need to be specifically South American or Latin American. Instead we discovered we were talking about human beings in general. We realized that these are not issues only pertinent to Latin America: poverty, misery, consumerism, etc.

Alex Abreu

#32. The obvious merits utterance. Character is f**king pertinent.

Al Swearengen

#33. I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue.

Justin Lin

#34. Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.

Oscar Wilde

#35. I think, once recipes become digital, pirating a digital recipe and all the questions that you have with music and so forth will become pertinent to food as well.

Hod Lipson

#36. A movie like 'Transcendence' may be pertinent in its political reverberations of all computer data held in a cloud and monitored by the NSA, but it also rails against the tools its makers so artfully employ.

Richard Corliss

#37. An effective leader develops the ability to correctly identify the pertinent detail or details - incidentals in a market, industry or sport that might create an incremental advantage.

John Wooden

#38. What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#39. We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians. We do not care for the Bible, but we do care for the newspaper.At any meeting of politicianshow impertinent it would be to quote from the Bible! how pertinent to quote from a newspaper or from the Constitution!

Henry David Thoreau

#40. In the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or refused to ask them under the pretext that they are meaningless, and in any case not the scientists concern.

Arthur Koestler

#41. If indeed good were a feeling....then it would exist in time. But that is why to call it so is to commit the naturalistic fallacy. It will always remain pertinent to ask, whether the feeling itself is good; and if do, then good cannot itself be identical with any feeling.

G.E. Moore

#42. I am excited for the future of the industry, because we're at that point now where digital is becoming pertinent to release and distribution strategy versus releasing on cable or anywhere else.

Felicia Day

#43. To every bad there's a good and to every good there's a bad. And both are pertinent to the lessons of life, and the building of your character or individuality.

Aloy Ricketts

#44. I'm sure part of the baggage that I bring having played a lot of villains is also pertinent to the movie [ Before I Go To Sleep], because I'm sure people look at me and think, "Oh, I'm not sure I trust him or not."

Mark Strong

#45. The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right - but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and efforts on them.

Peter Drucker

#46. The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.

Charles Edwards

#47. Mr. Kaplan is the first traveler to take us on a journey to the jagged places where these tectonic plates meet, and his argument
that our future is being shaped far away 'at the ends of the earth'
makes his travelogue pertinent and compelling reading.

Michael Ignatieff

#48. The question is not "Can this product be built?" In the modern economy, almost any product that can be imagined can be built. The more pertinent questions are "Should this product be built?" and "Can we build a sustainable business around this set of products and services?" To

Eric Ries

#49. Just go on reading, as well as you can, and be sure that when the children get the thrill of the story, for which you wait, they will be asking more questions, and pertinent ones, than you are able to answer.

Arthur Quiller-Couch

#50. When one was full of energy and enthusiasm the world was an apple, the future was way beyond the horizon and only the present was pertinent.

Jeff Tikari

#51. Where do I get my ideas? The more pertinent question is ... how do I make them stop?

Stephen King

#52. As America is transformed from a 90 percent European American nation, as it was in the 1960s, to one where we will soon be a minority, should we not ask some pertinent questions. Is this racial diversity enriching, or will it be damaging to our social fabric?

David Duke

#53. That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Jacob Bronowski

#54. I start with an idea or a problem or a conflict, or even a situation that might be pertinent to the lives of young people, then the characters grow from that point. I try to make strong characters that change and develop and learn from their mistakes.

Sharon Draper

#55. The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action

Chester Barnard

#56. It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes.

H.P. Lovecraft

#57. But when women are asked when they're going to have children, there is, in actually, another darker, more pertinent question lying underneath it.

Caitlin Moran

#58. Infinite possibilities are available if you follow a pertinent sequence of creative action.

Wayne W. Dyer

#59. If we remember that the German word for holy (selig) is the root of our word silly, we may be forced to make some pertinent connections.

Mary Rose O'Reilley

#60. Few studies have been done to discover why the happy man is happy, yet his answers would be highly pertinent.

Jane Roberts

#61. As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.

Chuck Jones