London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books.
Anna QuindlenTag: past present meaning teaching importance lessons london literary-london
In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such a thing as a trifle yet.
Wilkie CollinsTag: trifles importance details
When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!
Daniel PennacTag: reading books importance
Peter! Were you looking for a horse-shoe?"
"No; I was expecting the horse, but the shoe is a piece of pure, gorgeous luck."
"And observation. I found it."
"You did. And I could kiss you for it. You need not shrink and tremble. I am not going to do it. When I kiss you, it will be an important event -- one of those things which stand out among their surroundings like the first time you tasted li-chee. It will not be an unimportant sideshow attached to a detective investigation.
Tag: humor kisses horses importance luck banter horse-shoes
The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.
E.M. ForsterTag: memory public-opinion importance issues relevance
Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.
John CleeseTag: thinking creativity creative-process importance ease triviality
If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?
Sam HarrisTag: paradox honesty reason logic value importance evidence
Cookery means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe and of Helen and of the Queen of Sheba. It means the knowledge of all herbs and fruits and balms and spices, and all that is healing and sweet in the fields and groves and savory in meats. It means carefulness and inventiveness and willingness and readiness of appliances. It means the economy of your grandmothers and the science of the modern chemist; it means much testing and no wasting; it means English thoroughness and French art and Arabian hospitality; and, in fine, it means that you are to be perfectly and always ladies — loaf givers.
John RuskinTag: importance helen cookbook cookery 1918 circe medea arabian-hospitality boston-cooking-school english-thoroughness french-art
The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement. You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day.
Arthur Conan DoyleTag: sherlock-holmes detection trifles facts importance details crimes trivialities
Pain only matters when it happens to someone important.
John BarnesTag: pain importance mattering
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