Pertinent Quotes

53 Pertinent quotes by 48 unique authors

I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They… — Elayne Boosler
I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell… — Bill Bryson
The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them? — Frank Chodorov
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow,… — Charles Lamb
I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains… — Shirley Jackson
[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature-a singularly… — Jacob Bronowski
Every soul that is born into flesh is soiled by the filth of wickedness and sin. . . . In the Church, baptism is given… — Origen
Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are statistically… — Unknown Author
It seems to me the only pertinent question is: cui bono? It is clear that the size of the privileged strata as a percentage of… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action — Chester Barnard
My approach to violence is that if it's pertinent, if that's the kind of movie you're making, then it has a purposeI think there's a… — Guy Ritchie
Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is not that which is available to… — Joseph Campbell
My diary entries during this period constantly refer to the importance of learning how to take criticism. If you shut yourself in your own little… — Joao Magueijo
As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character. — Chuck Jones
The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right - but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and… — Peter Drucker
Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a… — Jack Vance
The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent. — Aldrich Ames
When I started out in business, I spent a great deal of time researching every detail that might be pertinent to the deal I was… — Donald Trump
Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition.… — Hyrum W. Smith
The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in… — Charles Edwards
The fine art of executive decision consists in not deciding questions that are not now pertinent, in not deciding prematurely, in not making decisions that… — Chester Barnard
Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant. — Oscar Wilde
[I]nstead of the usual "Why can't we make movies more like real life?" I think a more pertinent question is "Why can't real life be… — Ernie Pyle
There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment… — Bob Schieffer
The obvious merits utterance. Character is f**king pertinent. — Al Swearengen

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