Famous quotes containing the word importance:
“Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the purpose be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language.... To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.”
—Frantz Fanon (19251961)
“... women especially seem to have very little idea of the importance of business time.”
—Caroline Nichols Churchill (1833?)