Important Quotes

"Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land business or just enjoy the shade of a majestic oak gracing your lawn, we all have an interest in this important issue"

Leonard Boswell, Politician

"Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built"

Leon Uris, Writer

"I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me"

Michael Pitt, Actor

"Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called "they" - you can never get around it"

Henry Hampton, Activist

"And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"I think sleep's really important. I value it as much as waking up and having a full day"

Jena Malone, Actress

"I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy"

Katy Perry, Musician

"Amtrak is extremely important to the economy of Southern Illinois and I will continue to work with state and local leaders and my colleagues in Congress to secure the necessary funding to maintain full service"

Jerry Costello, Politician

"Life is very important to Americans"

Bob Dole, Politician

"Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions"

Tom G. Palmer, Educator

"I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about"

Jonathan Shapiro, Cartoonist

"I think it's important for fans to know that but if I'm doing something that inspires me musically then I think it will inspire someone else too"

Chris Cornell, Musician

"The Iraqi elections were an important first step"

Brent Scowcroft, Public Servant

"I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important"

Salman Rushdie, Novelist

"One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past"

George Crumb, Composer

"It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow"

Anne Heche, Actress

"And it's important to remember we are all responsible - or certainly the elected members in Washington of both parties are responsible for making decisions and choices to ensure that the economy grows and jobs are created"

Jay Carney, Public Servant

"Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others"

Elihu Root, Lawyer

"What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both"

Dick Gephardt, Politician

"I think one of the most important attributes is perseverance"

David Rose, Musician

"I think if the movie has resonance and stimulates the viewer to talk about it, you can have as large an audience as you want. The most important thing for me is that the movie exists. And that's success enough already"

Andy Garcia, Actor

"And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on"

Brett Favre, Athlete

"I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens"

John Maynard Keynes, Economist

"I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature"

Robin Day, Journalist

"All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first"

Denis Johnson, Writer

"Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out"

Stephen King, Author

"What is important in life is life, and not the result of life"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Imagination is more important than knowledge"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The beginning is the most important part of the work"

Plato, Philosopher

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