Quotes About Something Important

#1. Kids, they are always hurting themselves. It's like, "Quick, get me to casualty quick!" while your doing something important like sitting down picking your ear.

Dylan Moran

#2. I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important, and with that in mind I regard everyone as special. A manager should feel this way about people, but it's an attitude that can't be faked. You've got to be honestly convinced that every human being is important.

Mary Kay Ash

#3. I stop in front of Olivia and cup her face in my hands, kissing her sweetly on the mouth. She looks up at me with her liquid eyes and something in me melts away. I think to myself that I hope it wasn't something important. Something that I needed.

M. Leighton

#4. You educate people, especially young people, by stirring their passions, so you take every opportunity to grab the imagination of your employees, you get them to feel they are doing something important, that they are not a lone voice, that they are the most powerful and potent people on the planet.

Anita Roddick

#5. Every correct answer is necessarily a secret: something important and unknown, something hard to do but doable.

Peter Thiel

#6. Something important is lost if this man has been forced to deny his own nature.

Veronica Roth

#7. My stockbroker asked me something important today: paper or plastic?

Jay Leno

#8. I feel like something important has happened to meIs this possible?

David Mitchell

#9. Don't let some random comment that you wouldn't have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say.

Lorde

#10. I really have to keep an eye on myself, because sometimes I think I might say something important.

Leslie Nielsen

#11. I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.

Lou Reed

#12. Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

Jim Butcher

#13. Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.

Neil Armstrong

#14. If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.

Yakov Smirnoff

#15. [On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.

Fran Lebowitz

#16. Those moments at the dinner table, I felt as Sveta were teaching me something important: that I didn't need to make every opinion known, didn't need to be filterless, that sometimes the best thing was to sit quietly and smile and sip my wine.

Molly Antopol

#17. Advertising does something important as a sector - culturally and especially economically

Chuka Umunna

#18. Did I think I was doing God's work?" he said later. "No. But I did think market efficiency was something important for the economy.

Michael Lewis

#19. That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.

John Green

#20. I would never trust anyone who didn't get at least a little nervous on the cusp of doing something important to them in front of other people.

Gwenda Bond

#21. And I think something is beautiful if it reveals something important about what it means to be alive.

Maureen Johnson

#22. I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important.

Eric McCormack

#23. Stupidity was when you took risks for no good reason. Courage was when you took a calculated risk in order to accomplish something important. Had

Brandon Mull

#24. When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.

Jennifer Granholm

#25. Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can't figure out the story. We don't know what part we're supposed to play or what the plot is.

John Eldredge

#26. What do you mean, something important? It's the middle of the night!
-Sandstorm

Erin Hunter

#27. Fuck me hard when you're mad, soft when you're not, bite my dick when I won't listen and deny me until I beg when I'm late or forget something important. But always, always love me?

S.E. Hall

#28. I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.

Ed Harris

#29. You have the right to be involved. You have something important to contribute, and you have to take the risk to contribute it.

Mae Jemison

#30. I wanted to rewind. Go back. Tell Decker to take the long way around. Go back even further. Ask Decker to stay inside with me. I would have told him something important, and it would've mattered. Before all this, it would've mattered.

Megan Miranda

#31. He wanted to care, he wanted to care so badly, but there was this gap between what he felt and what he wanted to feel, a space where something important had been carved out.

Victoria Schwab

#32. I'm going to write a novel and get it published. I'm going to do it because writing a novel is worthwhile and because I have the talent to do it.
I'm going to do it because I have something important to say to the world.
I refuse to let anything get in my way.

Randy Ingermanson

#33. The secret of leaving, the secret I have only just now learned: leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. - Quentin

John Green

#34. All those millions of stars and planets and it only takes three to make something important. The Sun, the Moon, and the Earth. And here we are. Life.

Dan Skinner

#35. Code should run as fast as necessary, but no faster; something important is always traded away to increase speed.

Richard E. Pattis

#36. I have never seen a work of fiction so perfectly capture the out-of-nowhere shock of discovering that you've just bricked something important because you didn't pay enough attention to a loose wire.

Randall Munroe

#37. The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.

Phillip E. Johnson

#38. Tell me something important about her. People make fun of her?"
"Some did," she said. "I never liked it, but ... "
"Crap." I looked at Molly and said, "Code Carrie. We're in trouble.

Jim Butcher

#39. Are you in the middle of something important, or can I grab you for a few minutes.' ... ..'Mr. Drake, I don't think that would be appropriate.

Victoria Michaels

#40. Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Groucho Marx

#41. Originally, I wanted to do humanitarian work. I actually feel that getting into acting, which fate has led me to, is my window and path into humanitarian work. I always said I want to do something important. And I feel this work is what's helping me get there.

Evangeline Lilly

#42. Before asking God's forgiveness there is something important you must do. You must repent, that is, turn from the behavior and lifestyle that [leads to sin].

Billy Graham

#43. You can choose between being a victim of destiny or an adventurer who is fighting for something important.

Paulo Coelho

#44. If you're having dinner with friends and they're always on the phone or always texting, it's just impolite. Unless it's something important - like someone is in the hospital or something - don't do it.

Adriana Lima

#45. Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#46. -You forgot something important! -What? -It's under my sweater! -WHAT?! -Me!

Cornelia Funke

#47. when you have something important to do, if there are two of you, you have one too many.

David McCullough

#48. Goats - but not sheep - monitor each other's gaze, lest they miss something important.6

Anonymous

#49. When she packed up to leave, she knew that she was saying goodbye to something important, which was not that bad, in a way, because it meant that at least you had said hello to it to begin with ...

Lorrie Moore

#50. The de'clic (DEH-kleek) is an aha moment when a child figures out how to do something important on his own...it's a welcome sign of maturity and autonomy.

Pamela Druckerman

#51. One, something emotional has to be at stake. There has to be something important for me that I'm writing about. And then two, I have to have a formal idea. Something has to be being worked out in poetry.

Edward Hirsch

#52. Comics are expensive. Don't make me resent the money I spend buying yours. Every single moment in your script must either move the story along or demonstrate something important about the characters - preferably both - and every panel that does neither is a sloppy waste of space.

Mark Waid

#53. An upset is our maker's way of telling us that we need to learn something. It is a tap on our shoulder saying, 'Pay attention. You have something important to learn. If you lie, blame, justify, or deny the upset, you waste the upset and will waste a precious gem of wisdom.'" Rich

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#54. When I stood up, my steps were uncertain, as though I were wearing lifts in my shoes. I could feel the air between the soles of my feet and the ground. It was like something important had altered, like gravity, or the air itself.

Judy Blundell

#55. Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#56. I try to live my life in such a way that I don't have any regrets. That's probably why I work so much. I don't want to feel I missed something important.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#57. Even if you fulfill your hearts desire, by sacrificing something important, you may not necessarily be happy. Happiness doesn't come in one form, it determined by your own heart.

Ai Yazawa

#58. There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.

Damian Lewis

#59. something important is broken

Marko Kloos

#60. After kids leave the house, they can decide to do whatever they want, but while they're under my roof, they're going to be lawyers or writers or something, something important, anything except actors.

John Leguizamo

#61. When you have a stroke, you must talk slowly to be understood, and I've discovered that when I talk slowly, people listen. They think I'm going to say something important!

Kirk Douglas

#62. I'm really interested in social justice, and if an artist has a certain power of being heard and voicing something important, it's right to do it. It could still be done in such a way that it's not aggressive or overly didactic. I'm trying to find that form.

Shirin Neshat

#63. They write as if they have something important to show.

Steven Pinker

#64. Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

Benjamin Spock

#65. Some kisses are gentle and simply social; no more than a greeting, a brush on the cheek. Some exist only as a prelude to other activities. But our first kiss had a life and a meaning of its own. I felt that it marked the beginning of something important.

Vernon Coleman

#66. People and birds were alike. Things happened that hurt them or made their lives harder. All the time. But losing someone or something important didn't mean the end of everything. It meant you had to find a new way to do things.

Suzanne Goldsmith

#67. It was always too late, she thought. At the point when you actually realized something important, the moment to do anything about it had already slipped by.

Emily Grayson

#68. I ached with loss that I'd never allowed myself to feel. As if I was leaving something important behind. And that something was me.

A. Lynn

#69. both observing and breaking the rules involve moral choices, and both courses of action reveal something important about the individual involved. Contrary

Glenn Greenwald

#70. I like to listen to music that makes me feel a certain way - either it reminds me of something important that happened or a certain time in my life

Martin Johnson

#71. Sighing, she looked out at the fog. It was like life, preventing her from seeing what was beyond reach. She wasn't unhappy. She simply felt that something important was missing from her life

Lorraine Heath

#72. There is no fun in getting into a debate or a contest of wills. If something important comes out of the conversation, okay. If not, that's okay, too.

Wayne Rogers

#73. I want to do something important in my life, and I think that adding beauty to the world with books ... really is important.

Cynthia Rylant

#74. We read fiction to satisfy a more basic need - to imagine our way into other lives, to explore characters and situations that tell us something new about the world, and maybe about ourselves, or to remind us of something important that we may have forgotten.

Tom Perrotta

#75. Everyone is talented, original and has something important to say.

Brenda Ueland

#76. I've always felt like my music would stand for itself and I would stand for myself. So I've kept my music a little bit esoteric, and I've kept the lyrics a little aloof. I try to say something important, but I don't necessarily preach.

Kenna

#77. When mouths close, it's because there's something important to be said.

Paulo Coelho

#78. I really do love bluesy-jazzy music, so I love Etta James, B.B. King and Billie Holiday. I love that they have soul in their voices - I think that's something important is having.

Bridgit Mendler

#79. You ever have the feeling you lost something important, only to discover it was never there to begin with?

David Arnold

#80. There is something important you should know: the most significant examples of great work, the most poignant, the most inspiring, the ones we know would take your breath away, we can't tell you about. They haven't happened yet. They're yours.

David Sturt

#81. 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

#82. I'm from the point of view there's something important to deliver to the world. You can be an entertainer; I suppose I shouldn't be down on the idea of going to see a film for the hell of it, but there's too much of that.

Rob Nilsson

#83. There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Franklin Pierce Adams

#84. Not quite. I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feel that I've got something important to say and the power to say it - only I don't know what it is, and I can't make any use of the power.

Aldous Huxley

#85. If you die trying for something important, then you have both honor and courage, and that's pretty good.

Michael Oher

#86. How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers and especially poets.

Karl Shapiro

#87. Every time we get slapped down, we can say, Thank you Mother Nature, because it means we're about to learn something important.

John N. Bahcall

#88. perpetual inbox obsession wasn't an organizational expectation; rather, it was fueled by a deep insecurity that something important was going to happen and that he wouldn't respond in time to contribute meaningfully to the conversation.

Todd Henry

#89. They're waitin'. They're witin' for something that they feel is comin'. Something important, and great. Aren't they waitin' for the eternal part in them to come out clear?

Thorton Wilder

#90. You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.

Talib Kweli

#91. I don't read the newspapers, I don't watch the news. I figure, if something important happens, someone will tell me.

Justin Trudeau

#92. That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.

Reese Witherspoon

#93. I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important.

Jack Ma

#94. I knew that sometimes when people spoke, it wasn't because they had something important to say. It was because they had a powerful need for someone to listen.

Jodi Picoult

#95. what valuable company is nobody building? Every correct answer is necessarily a secret: something important and unknown, something hard to do but doable. If there are many secrets left in the world, there are probably many world-changing companies yet to be started.

Peter Thiel

#96. That's the psychopath: somebody who doesn't understand what's going on emotionally, but understands that something important has happened." But

Jon Ronson

#97. Something important is always about to happen ... And if not, you'd do well to act as if it were. You'll enjoy life better that way.

Julia Quinn

#98. We each have an appointment with death. I'd rather die for a cause than die of old age never having done something important.

Brenda Drake

#99. That when you have something important to do, you should simply do it. Because fear is a useless emotion that doesn't change anything." She rested her cheek against his chest. "And life is too short and too precious to spend any of it being afraid.

Shelly Thacker

#100. Everyone's their own nation, with their own blog. Because everybody has something important to say; everybody's putting out press releases on what they ate for breakfast. It's the era of self-importance.

Tom Rachman