Inconsequential Quotes

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential.

The man who is of neither party, is not—cannot be, of any consequence.

This film is apparently meaningless, but if it has any meaning it is doubtless objectionable.

England never felt claustrophobic for me at all. I think it would feel more difficult for me if I lived in mainland Europe. America I think is really easy because Los Angeles has film stars everywhere and musicians and Santa Barbara a lot of people have homes there even if they don't live there. You are kind of inconsequential, no one cares.

I don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with something to say. I haven't. I've got nothing to say. My opinion is of no consequence or value.

The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?

Count on me to shine where it doesn't count.

You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago.

A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

We can do anything we like as long as it is UNIMPORTANT.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.

… a small caliber man.

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Occasionally I'll come across something that's just annoying, but for the most part it's irrelevant to me.

His response was remarkable for its irrelevance, if for nothing else.

She wished she were as inconsequential as the ghosts in her dreams.

One lesson astronomy tells us is that we're a tiny mote in a hostile void, and help is too far away.

If you hold George W. Bush up to the light, he won't cast a shadow.

Nonsense is nonsense whether it rhymes or not, just as bad half-pennies are good for nothing whether they jingle or lie quiet.

Too often, if you look back through the history of representation and you take the work of African-American artists, the work is on such a modest scale that it becomes sort of inconsequential.

I can't know entirely what's at stake beforehand; you find out as you go. I love to take a poem, for instance, that starts with something seemingly frivolous or inconsequential and then grows in gravity until by the end it's something very serious.

My life is a vast inconsequential epic.

Traditionally vice presidential debates don't move the needle one way or the other. They have largely been irrelevant and inconsequential.