Quotes:On the surgically enhanced Jordan: She looks at you as if you're insignifi
cant... not all of us have been under the knife.
View quotes by Liz McLarnonArt is signifi
cant deformity.
View quotes by Roger FryThe few really great - the major novelists... are signifi
cant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life (The Great Tradition)
View quotes by F R LeavisO, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive! (Marmion, 1808,
canto 6, st.30)
View quotes by Sir Walter ScottThis was the hand that wrote it (his re
cantation), therefore it shall suffer first punishment. (At the stake, 21 March 1556)
View quotes by Thomas CranmerStars scribble on our eyes the frosty sagas,
The gleaming
cantos of unvanquished space.
(Cape Hatteras)
View quotes by Hart CraneThe longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignifi
cant, is energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.
View quotes by Sir Thomas Bowell BuxtonTwelve signifi
cant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
View quotes by Ansel Adams DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonuclei
cantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables.
View quotes by Dave BarryA peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is signifi
cant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
View quotes by John BergerGenuine ignorance is profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases,
cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.
View quotes by John DeweyWho are we? We find that we live on an insignifi
cant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
View quotes by Carl SaganThe person you consider ignorant and insignifi
cant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
View quotes by Kahlil GibranArt at its most signifi
cant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
View quotes by Marshall McLuhanThe digital revolution is far more signifi
cant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
View quotes by Douglas EngelbartYou'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignifi
cant in depth.
View quotes by Odysseus ElytisI'm a
Canterbury girl
View quotes by Nicky WatsonEvery person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, signifi
cant, and interesting.
View quotes by Aldous HuxleyWhen Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on va
cant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know.
View quotes by Ella WilcoxWe assess that there is no signifi
cant threat to the UK from nuclear weapons at present, but developments continue to be monitored closely. We remain committed to limiting the proliferation of nuclear weapons through our international treaty obligations, and national programmes.
View quotes by Geoff HoonThis is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignifi
cant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
View quotes by Virginia WoolfAbsence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite va
cant is a mind distressed.
View quotes by William CowperIt seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most signifi
cant and important.
View quotes by Soren KierkegaardIt can be absurd,
cantankerous, self-destructive and pompous, but it is never crass [on Yorkshire cricket]
View quotes by Peter RoebuckIf it were not for my Archbishop of
Canterbury I should be off in my plane to Longchamp every Sunday.
View quotes by Queen Elizabeth IIHumour is a social lubri
cant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
View quotes by Steve AllenI told our players not to be overawed by their stars. I said 'They're human, just like you. They pee just like you. Imagine Giggs and
Cantona having a piss. They don't piss wine.
View quotes by Uri GellerWomen's sexy underwear is a minor but signifi
cant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
View quotes by Angela CarterFar out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignifi
cant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea...
[The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy]
View quotes by Douglas AdamsOne of my most vivid memories of doing television was going back to that first series about Henry VIII. We did a piece on the Reformation, which is a hugely complicated and signifi
cant subject.
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