Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
Aldous Huxley

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Aldous Huxley

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.
David Letterman

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

To photograph is to confer importance.
Susan Sontag

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
John Maynard Keynes

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
Tennessee Williams

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
Marshall McLuhan

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley

God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
Barry Goldwater

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.
Dan Quayle

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
Dan Quayle

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.
Dan Quayle

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
George Santayana

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
Bertrand Russell

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
Bertrand Russell

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
Irving Berlin

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.
Howard Cosell

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
Ralph Ellison