Important Quotes

• The cacao content is a wrapper's most important datum, and the acceptable benchmark is seventy per cent. The figure is a measure of 'cocoa mass.'

  

  Bill Buford
  • Important

• Other people’s words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that their words prompted you to write. Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before. Other people’s words are the bridge you use to cross from where you were to wherever you’re going.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Writing
  • Words

• The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique.

  

  Ric Ocasek The Cars
  • People
  • Important
  • Society

• It's an important thing to remember where you came from.

  

  Michael Bolton
  • Important
  • Remember

• We need to make sure everything was above-board, ... It's an important business, an important sector of our economy and we can't function without that. We need to make sure other types of companies aren't facing that same type of problem.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Business
  • Problem
  • Companies

• Granted, everybody is different, but I think it's real important to know all the people that you are around, and how they operate their history, and things like that. You know where they are coming from a little bit, and you don't insult them, or take something for granted.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins
  • People
  • Different
  • Real

• My name is Kvothe, pronounced nearly the same as 'Quothe.' Names are important as they tell you a great deal about a person. I’ve had more names than anyone has a right to.The Adem call me Maedre. Which, depending on how it’s spoken, can mean 'The Flame,' 'The Thunder,' or 'The Broken Tree.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Great
  • Broken
  • Tree

• My friend Jonathan had a great tree house. It was awesome. It was like a big fort up in this tall magnolia tree... That's where we would conduct our very important business, I'm sure, with all our bikes leaning up against a tree and no girls allowed, handling all sorts of important things you handle when you're seven or eight.

  

  Eric Ladin
  • Up
  • Great
  • Business

• I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.

  

  Bong Joon-ho
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Society

• What's important with writing is that it comes from a place you absolutely love. I'm writing for film and TV. In America, they call people like me 'multi-hyphenators.'

  

  Cush Jumbo
  • People
  • Writing
  • America

• Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Life
  • Family
  • Death

• The people at home will work hard and actually all of them think it was important that we hade the decision that we did make not to compromise; because we didn't have anything to compromise for.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Promoting the interaction of orders remains one of the most difficult, but crucially important, challenges we face concerning our national market system.

  

  Arthur Levitt
  • Important

• That's one of the main things I do, work with choreographers. I've been doing it a long time, and it's a real important part of my life as a soundmaker, making music for dance.

  

  Zeena Parkins
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• The most important thing is to have the conversation, and let people who do make mistakes feel comfortable enough to continue the conversation.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Important
  • Mistake

• This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

  

  Brenda Ueland
  • Important

• You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

  

  Christopher Hampton
  • Important
  • True

• I really care about people, and I would need someone to also genuinely value other human beings and want to be connected with people in the world and to know about other cultures. That might not be a high standard for someone else, but for me, it's really important to try and stick to that.

  

  Aja Naomi King
  • People
  • World
  • High

• Chanel is a very important vendor for Neiman Marcus. My favorite thing is the way they finish off the hems on dresses and jackets.

  

  Karen Katz
  • Important

• I just loved performing. It just made me feel alive. It's scary, but that's part of it. I think it's important to have that extra adrenaline. It gives you that extra zing.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Important
  • Scary

• It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.

  

  Jeanne Tripplehorn
  • Family
  • Father
  • Relationship

• Teachers are important in this world.

  

  Martin Landau
  • World
  • Important

• In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.

  

  Archie Shepp
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Because God gave you your makeup and superintended every moment of your past, including all the hardship, pain, and struggles, He wants to use your words in a unique manner. No one else can speak through your vocal cords, and, equally important, no one else has your story.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • God
  • Past
  • Words

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