#significance

I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#apparently #call #emphasis #help #horn

Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn't poverty and inequality in this country. The Millions More Movement - Katrina gives it added significance. ↗

— Marc Morial

#anymore #because #country #game #gives

The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them of that birth just as the people who love us are not really interested primarily in the facts of our births but in what it meant to them when we were born and how for them the world was never the same again, how their whole lives were changed with new significance. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#life-changing #significance #change

Could a literary life be referred to with the iambic pentameter of, say, harnessing wind power, transplanting hearts or saving the whales. Or did it necessitate the sombre and monotonous dirge of software, priority banking or turbine building. ↗

— Anita Nair

#monotony #professions #significance #writing #life

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#decisions #ideas #life #significance #thinking

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#event #fraction #me #photography #recognition

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it. ↗

— Diane Johnson

#along #always #author #aware #deeper

I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient. ↗

— Mo Yan

#am #ancient #aware #beings #crises

Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance. ↗

— James Lafferty

#american #american culture #collect #creations #culture

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#awash #causality #disease #important #ineffectual