Meaning Quotes
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Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!
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If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.
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I hope I will not be typecast as a Bond girl for the rest of my life. I'm very proud of being a part of the Bond family, but I don't want to be the sexy girl forever. I'm not meaning to complain, but I just want to be taken seriously.
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Too many words are the locusts of the mind, which darken the air of the understanding and eat up our meaning.
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One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function. (When a historically given function is represented in a figure that inverts it, one has an ideological production.) The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.
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Maybe I should tell her that things without a meaning are the most beautiful ones.
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Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people derive from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them.
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You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You have to find associative meaning to get you there. So it's rather like doing a crossword puzzle backwards. A kind of strange, three-dimensional, abstract crossword puzzle.
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True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning.
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A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.
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I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.
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Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
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It's to try to spread the Word of God - the true meaning of Christmas. And that is more important than anything else.
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We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.
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Though in application it works splendidly, we do not even understand the physical meaning of quantum mechanics, much less how it might be united with general relativity.
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The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.
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I do think we need to allow for there to be room for subversive and ironic speech. We need to be able to put out plays in which we make fun of ourselves or in which we interrogate the words that injure us. And maybe give them another meaning.
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Meaning is not in things but in between them.
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Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead, A meaning suited to his mind.
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For a long time I found myself calling so many things "genius." Sometimes you mean it literally and sometimes it's the opposite, but either way it is so heavy and has so much meaning.
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The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
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Meaning equals emotion and emotion equals life. Choose consciously and wisely.
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I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.
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Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning.
