(1703 quotes found)
“The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.”
Walter Benjamin
“Microsoft never walks away from money. It makes a significant amount of money year-over-year from its Mac products.”
Carmi Levy
“One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.”
Wendy Craig
“A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.”
John Berger
“Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.”
Marshall McLuhan
“not a total surprise, it is very significant.”
Kirby Daley
“You gotta think numbers have some higher significance in our lives, given the fact before anything we were given the ability to count.”
Breanna Casella
“Any significant water that comes into this city is a dangerous threat. Even though I have to plan for it, I don't even want to think about the loss of life a huge hurricane would cause.”
Walter Maestri
“This is certainly one of the most significant recommendations to come before the commission.”
Anthony Principi
“182 has no significance, we just pulled it out of our ass.”
Blink 182