“I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, "You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it." And I said, "But, Daddy, no one's going to see it!" And he said, "Yeah, but I know it's there." So when I was working in kitchens, I did good work.” KnowsSaidImportantTodayRememberFatherNamesPerfectLessonsYeahKitchenTwelveGood WorkDaddyThirteenImportant Lessons Author:Toni Morrison
“Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.” WritingTwoImportantBigsWantedYoungActingCareersWiseAspectYeah Author:Jonah Hill
“Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney.” IfsThinkingImportantPlayCharacterRolesYeahIntenseAccusedMischiefFlatteredChristine Author:Sharon Gless
“At some point in your life you have to engage with the fact that you are part of a society. Yeah the individual is the most important facet in society but unless every individual is the recipient of free health care, free education decent affordable housing and a proper pension then only the rich and powerful will be individuals and the rest of us will be exploited by them.” ImportantFactsCareIndividualPowerfulRichYeahHealth CareDecentHousingAffordableFacetsPensionFree EducationAffordable Housing Author:Billy Bragg
“Maybe this is my morality coming in again but it was important to me that the actor [ in Notes On A Scandal] was above the age of consent. Although really, what's the difference between 15 and 16? It's the law, yeah, but he's very mature.” ImportantAgeLawActorsDifferencesMoralityYeahNotesMatureConsentScandalAge Of Consent Author:Cate Blanchett
“Do I observe holy days and holidays? Yeah, the ritual is very important to me. It's part of being Ukrainian Catholic. So every holy day we're baking pierogis and not eating meat.” ImportantHolyEatingCatholicYeahMeatHolidayRitualBakingUkrainianEating MeatHoly Days Author:Vera Farmiga
“Yeah, it's not that I wanted to do a painting, I wanted to do writing like that. What jolted me about Jasper Johns was how important it is to start with a convention, how important it is to start with what everybody knows and everybody takes for granted, whether it's a number, an alphabet letter, a set of alphabet letters, a target.” KnowsWritingImportantWantedNumbersPaintingLettersYeahGrantedTargetConventionsAlphabet Author:Vito Acconci
“I try not to think retrospectively. It's important, as an artist, to look forward, always. I do try to take work that involves some challenge. If you approach a piece of work and you're going, "Yeah, yeah, I can do that," then that's kind of a red flag.” IfsThinkingTryingLooksKindI CanImportantArtistCan DoChallengesPiecesApproachRedYeahFlagsRed Flags Author:Cillian Murphy
“Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.” ImportantYeahImportant ThingsThrillSeekersThrill Seekers Author:Steve Irwin
“The goals for me have changed somewhat. There's a bit of seduction to the idea of being on network, but it got to the point where that wasn't important. What's important is doing something worthwhile. Which is why I've always avoided being on a sitcom. Yeah, it's high-profile and it's on a network, but you know what? You could be on Suddenly Stewart.” KnowsImportantIdeasBitsGoalChangedYeahWorthwhileSeductionAvoidedProfileWhat's ImportantSitcomHigh Profile Author:Jon Stewart
“Yeah, it's scary. During filming, it wasn't just jitters from being the newer guy there or the greenest guy there. It was also fear of not messing up such an important character.” ImportantCharacterGuyYeahScaryMessing UpJitters Author:Steven Yeun
“And then afterwards I worked in advertising for a year which taught me about writing even when you don't want to (laughter) because there's never a moment that you want to write about an Erickson cell phone but you have to. And that's really important you know obviously for the...like if you really want to write, you have to write every day no matter how you feel or you know. And then, yeah, and then I ended up working in TV and then from TV into movies and then directing, so.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsWritingYearsImportantMatterMomentsTaughtTvsLaughterYeahPhonesAdvertisingCellsNow And ThenCell PhoneHow You Feel Author:Nicholas Stoller
“Yeah, because we wanted to go back to the original tone. It's one of the original movies like The Muppet Movie, Muppets Take Manhattan, The Great Muppet Caper. Those kinds of movies. So that was really important that we hit that tone and those have a lot of cameos in them and so Jason and I started asking people and everyone we asked just wants to do it.” PeopleWantKindImportantWantedAskingOriginalsYeahToneManhattanJasonMuppetCameosCapers Author:Nicholas Stoller
“Down is an incredibly important band to me. And there's one other project that may be a little tough for people to understand - it's not sonically heavy, but subject-wise it's absolutely heavy. It's a band that I've been in for many, many yearsm and I've just been waiting for the right itme, and boy, it sure is the right time. So, yeah, you will hear music from Philip Anselmo again, and it ain't gonna be nothing nice.” PeopleMayLittlesImportantWaitingBoysWiseNiceSubjectsBandProjectsToughYeahHeavyRight TimePhilip Author:Phil Anselmo
“Yeah, but Jesus is the most important thing to me and I want to be bold about it.” WantImportantJesusYeahImportant Things Author:Jonny Lang
“Anyway, when I finished the book, I handed it in, didn't want to read it again, but when it finally was in print I felt like OK, I have to read this. And yeah, I thought God, this is petty, this is silly, too emotional, too raw...and maybe it was then, but now it all seems that it's so much better because all the stuff that felt petty and silly now seems more relevant because Andy was so important.” WantImportantBookSeemsFeltStuffEmotionalYeahFinishedSillyPrintRelevantPetty Author:Bob Colacello
“I'm older now, and I been through that, like, 'Stop. Tell the truth, what I need to do?' And I think that's important, as far as artist, for me to stand for what I believe in, And a lot of times people don't like that, you know what I'm saying. You become a troubled artist, or, 'You don't listen,' but as long as I say 'Yeah, I'll do it!' I'm a good person.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsBelievePersonsLongImportantArtistI BelieveYeahI Believe InTelling The TruthGood Person Author:Ginuwine
“I don't know about immortal, but I must say that to me to touch more women and to have them understand friendships is important. I've had girls come up to me who said, "Yeah, after I saw 'Beaches' I called up my friend Denise who I was really mad at. She got me so aggravated and I called her and we made up." So if I could do that with this new release, yes, that would be very pleasing to me because, hey, it's a tough world. You need friends out there.” IfsKnowsWorldNeedsMadeSaidImportantWould BeGirlSawsMy FriendsToughYeahMadCome UpReleaseHeyBeachIf I CouldImmortalFriend In NeedAggravatedTough World Author:Garry Marshall
“Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.” PeopleThinkingImportantBookFeelingsInspireOne DayPicksWake UpYeah Author:Maynard James Keenan
“Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah.” ImportantBeautifulYeahDetailsTiesSuspectsThrillingInformative Author:Mark Morris
“Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.” ThinkingNeedsWellsImportantSelfPoliticalBeliefPartyTeamFootballDisciplineEasierAgreeYeahMinistersPrimePrime MinisterPolitical PartiesSense Of SelfFootball TeamInspirational TeamBelief In Self Author:Iain Duncan Smith
“This is a, uh, friendship ring right?” “Yeah, don’t worry. If I propose, you’ll know it. For one thing, I’ll be hyperventilating.” A sly smile—surprisingly sexy—turned up his lips. “And it’ll be a ruby.” “Rubies? No diamonds? Too expensive for the old writer’s salary, huh?” He made a disparaging grunt at that. “No, I just think diamonds are common, that’s all. If I get married, it’ll be because something uncommon is occurring. Besides, you wear a lot of red, right? I know how important it is for your accessories to match.” IfsThinkingKnowsMadeImportantCommonWorryKnow HowOne ThingMarriedRedYeahLipsSexyRingsExpensiveDiamondSalaryProposeUncommonAccessoriesSlyRubiesGruntSuccubusDisparaging Author:Richelle Mead
“When I was a kid--10, 11, 12, 13--the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody. And back then, a thought would go through my head almost constantly: "There's never gonna be a room someplace where there's a group of people sitting around, having fun, hanging out, where one of them goes, 'You know what would be great? We should call Fiona. Yeah, that would be good.' That'll never happen. There's nothing interesting about me." I just felt like I was a sad little boring thing.” PeopleKnowsWorldShouldLittlesImportantHappensWould BeKidsWantedFunFeltInterestingRoomsGroupsUnderstoodSittingYeahBoringBe GoodHaving FunHanging OutSitting AroundBoring Things Author:Fiona Apple
“She sighed. Loudly. "Physical appearance is not what is important." Yeah right. Tell that to any girl who hasn't bothered to put on a presentable shirt or fix her hair because she's only running into the grocery store to get a quart of milk for her grandmother, and who does she see tending the 7-ITEMS-OR-LESS cash register but the guy of her dreams, except she can't even say hi—much less try to develop a meaningful relationship—since she looks like the poster child for the terminally geeky.” TryingLooksChildrenDoeImportantDreamRunningGuyGirlHairYeahAppearanceStoresMeaningfulShirtsGrandmotherMilkCashItemsBotheredGroceriesRegisterPostersGrocery StoresPhysical AppearanceMeaningful Relationship Book:Heir Apparent Source: Heir Apparent
“You can tell the future?' 'More like the future mugs me from time to time.' Rachel said 'I speak prophecies. The oracle spirit kind of hijacks me once in a while, and speaks important stuff that doesn't make any sense to anybody. But yeah, the prophecies tell the future.” KindSaidImportantSpiritSpeakStuffYeahProphecyOraclesMug Author:Rick Riordan
“If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When people say, for example, that they like their veal or hot dogs too much to ever give them up, and yeah it's sad about the farms but that's just the way it is, reason hears in that the voice of gluttony. We can say that what makes a human being human is precisely the ability to understand that the suffering of an animal is more important than the taste of a treat.” PeopleIfsWayGivingHumansImportantReasonSufferingChoicesVoiceHuman BeingsAbilityAnimalToo MuchDogExampleMoralityTasteConcernedTreatsHotYeahDefinedFarmsBeing HumanOur ChoicesGluttonyHot Dog Author:Matthew Scully
“Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world. Yeah, I know there are more important things. But don't forget to remember me.” KnowsWorldFeelsImportantSometimesBigsRememberForgetLordYeahImportant ThingsRemember MeOld World Author:Carrie Underwood
“Makes a diff'rence, havin' a decent family,' he said. 'Me dad was decent. An' your mum an' dad were decent. If they'd lived, life woulda bin diff'rent, eh?' 'Yeah, I s'pose,' said Harry cautiously. Hagrid seemed to be in a very strange mood. 'Family,' said Hagrid gloomily. 'Whatever yeh say, blood's important.” IfsSaidImportantBloodStrangeDadYeahMoodDecentMumYour MumHagrid Author:J. K. Rowling