Unimportant People Quotes

#1. Freedom consists of being insulated from the envy and ignorance of the unimportant people who temporarily surround her.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#2. Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will work for kings, not unimportant people.

ISV Foundation Committee On Translation

#3. The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.

Louise Brown

#4. I know it sounds earnest, but I do really feel in my bones that acting is just a small part of the equation when you are making a movie. The director really is in charge. Actors are as important or unimportant as the rest of the people around them.

Julia Stiles

#5. I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper.

Paulo Costanzo

#6. Besides me, Pigpen is the youngest guy in here and then there's Eli.

Katie McGarry

#7. My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.

John Frusciante

#8. Perspective starts from one viewpoint and never gets away from it. But the viewpoint is quite unimportant. It is though someone were to draw profiles all his life, leading people to think that a man has only one eye ...

Georges Braque

#9. To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

Booker T. Washington

#10. It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.

Alison Moyet

#11. when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only.

Paulo Coelho

#12. And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant.

Paulo Coelho

#13. Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self.

Stephen Covey

#14. It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#15. You can bite the pillow when I make you scream.

Sarina Bowen

#16. People have had to make up for their spiritual impoverishment by accumulating material things. When spiritual blessings come, material blessings seem unimportant. As long as we desire material things this is all we receive, and we remain spiritually impoverished.

Peace Pilgrim

#17. Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.

John Cassavetes

#18. Defensive devaluation is a protective device that makes love bad, trust unimportant and people "no darn good any way". People who have been deeply hurt in their relationships will often devalue love so it doesn't hurt so much. And they often become resigned to never loving again.

Henry Cloud

#19. People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else.

B.R. Myers

#20. Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work.

Yelena Bonner

#21. Who has more power than a child? She can be as cruel as she wants to be. He can't.

Michael Cunningham

#22. With all our crime and all our immorality ... and about as much contentment and respose as a fresh-caged hyena, we go to tell the whole world: we are the only one with the right idea!

Will Rogers

#23. Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.

Paul Strand

#24. Penetrating a company's security often starts with the bad guy obtaining some piece of information that seems so innocent, so everyday and unimportant, that most people in the organization don't see any reason why the item should be protected and restricted.

Kevin Mitnick

#25. Ordinary-size people, they don't know: their lives have been rehearsed and rehearsed by every single person who ever lived before them, inventions and improvements and unimportant notions each generation, each year. In 600BC somebody did something that makes your life easier today; in 1217, 1892.

Elizabeth McCracken

#26. Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company

Bill Gates

#27. Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?

Victoria Moran

#28. Mental reflection os so much more interesting than tv [that]it's a shame more people don't switch over to it. They probably think what they hear is unimportant, but it never is.

Robert M. Pirsig

#29. Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.

Beverly Cleary

#30. What does it profit a 78-year-old woman to sit around the pool in a bikini if she cannot feed herself?

Erma Bombeck

#31. You know, some people don't see the things right under their noses. They mistake the everyday for what's ordinary and unimportant.

Menna Van Praag

#32. There are people to whom gain is unimportant, who are hopelessly unhappy and lonely.

Emil Cioran

#33. Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005.

Randy Neugebauer

#34. All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.

Ray Bradbury

#35. What if my greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life, is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy?

Laura Story

#36. It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.

Calvin Coolidge

#37. Customers, like spouses, can be at your beck and call if you give them what they need, when they need it and how they need it. Massage their ego and you have them by the heart.

J. N. HALM

#38. According to the State of Florida, the person with the gun has the right to defend him or herself.

Bill Cosby

#39. Do good deeds and serve people, because nobody is too unimportant not to be served by you.

Sunday Adelaja