Victor Hugo Quotes
A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.Victor Hugo
Quotes to Explore
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In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.
Utada Hikaru -
The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.
Otto Rank -
I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
Dan Buettner -
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Karl Marx -
Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
Viktor E. Frankl -
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. Wells
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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
Viktor E. Frankl -
Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.
Gail Carriger -
Tagliatelle comes from the word tagliare, meaning 'to cut.' Tagliolini are simply thinly cut tagliatelle.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
Wallace Stevens -
The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
Fiona Shaw
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
Hannah Arendt -
The meaning of the story is the story.
Flannery O'Connor -
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
Oscar Wilde -
I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.
Oscar Wilde -
It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn.
Frank Muir -
The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor of mankind. Nietzsche considered that evolution presented a correct picture of the world, but that it was a disastrous picture. His philosophy was an attempt to produce a new world-picture which took Darwinism into account but was not nullified by it.
R. J. Hollingdale
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A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.
Samuel R. Delany -
There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.
Jackie Stewart -
I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day.
Missy Elliott -
I had to learn to sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.
L'Wren Scott -
A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.
Victor Hugo