I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.
Godfrey Harold Hardy

It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance.
Eisaku Sato

Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.
Betty Shabazz

It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit.
Shinichi Suzuki

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
Elsa Schiaparelli

The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do.
Polykarp Kusch

The Silent Service is all together too silent. It's important to begin to highlight the critical importance of the Silent Service to our national security.
Rob Simmons

The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.
Bill Nelson

The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.
Clarence Stein

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
Vincent Canby

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.
Karl Pearson

If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.
Hortense Odlum

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.
Arthur Machen

U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East.
Richard Armitage

As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country.
George Edmund Street

The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.
Hidetoshi Nakata

It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.
Larry Page

I hope in time N. H. as well as the other States will feel the importance of Sovereignty.
William Whipple

It's hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.
Bill Delahunt

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.
Edward Heath