Top 478 Meanings Quotes & Sayings

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think, 'That's really a better meaning than I thought, and perfectly valid, given the words that exist.' So part of what makes a song really good is that people take in different meanings, and they apply them, and they might be more powerful than the ones I'm thinking.

I don't think our lives actually unfold with morals attached to them, or meanings that are easily extracted, or jokes designed to generate sympathy. I wanted to do the opposite - to offer up a life whose meanings can only be perceived through a tangle of desires, confusions, and textural details.

I'm a sucker for double meanings in titles.

Much has been said about the meanings we make of illness, but what about the meanings we make out of cure? Cure is complex, disorienting, a revisioning of the self, either subtle or stark. Cure is the new, strange planet, pressing in. The doctor could not have known. And that made me, as it does every patient, only more alone.

A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.

You know sometimes words have two meanings.

There are several different meanings of the words "religion" and "spirituality," all of which are important. The whole point about an integral or comprehensive approach is that it must find a way to believably include all of those important meanings in a coherent whole.

Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings.

If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods.

Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.

Meanings come not from events themselves, but from what we bring to them.

Cut the pie any way you like, "meanings" just ain't in the head!

Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.

We are not determined by our experiences, but are self-determined by the meaning we give to them; and when we take particular experiences as the basis for our future life, we are almost certain to be misguided to some degree. Meanings are not determined by situations. We determine ourselves by the meanings we ascribe to situations.

I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.

I think there are no meaningful images. Meanings are created outside of the image.

It's not for me to share the meanings of others. I am only in charge of my own.

Titles are relatively arbitrary to me; they take on meanings that aren't really my meanings. 'Sound Of Silver' was just, like, I made the studio silver, and I wanted the record to sound 'more silver.'

Words take on many different meanings.

I try to write in a way where the lyrics have many meanings and you won't really know what's behind it.

In most films, when we act, we don't see such meanings in what we do. Rather, we don't realise it. Only when we see it as a continuous film later on do we realise such deep meanings. That is the brilliance of the director.

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and technics: they relate, not to external means and consequences, but to internal transformations, and unless it produce these internal transformations the work of art is either perfunctory or dead.

It's a matter of seeing the original meaning of all things. The world is full of all kinds of meanings. But our minds are so fettered by the lies and falsehoods they make for themselves, that they cannot see the beauty, goodness, or truth of those meanings. Only a mind that has become free can see such things.

I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.

An amoeba is a formless thing which takes many shapes. It moves by thrusting out an arm, and flowing into the arm. It multiplies by pulling itself in two, without permanently diminishing the original. So with words. A meaning may develop on the periphery of the body of meanings associated with a word, and shortly this tentacle-meaning has grown to such proportions that it dwarfs all other meanings.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

A barrier to communication is something that keeps meanings from meeting.

The word good has many meanings.

Fashion museums think the more you know about the significance of clothes culturally, the more interesting they are. We certainly don't neglect the aesthetic aspects of clothes. But, I feel that what sets us apart from social, economic, and even aesthetic, or art historical context is that we are not only talking about clothes as kind of art objects created by an artist designer, but also we're talking about the various meanings that clothes have in the world, and how that changes and how we kind of create meanings around clothes.

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.

It's meanings that we need to coax into our lives.

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them

It is important that we realize that words have meanings far beyond the dictionary definition.

One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other.

The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.

The subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested with wildly different cultural meanings, from the erotic to the spiritual, from the revolutionary to the artistic.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Civilisation is slippery, the word has multiple and contested meanings.

Over centuries, we have attached too many meanings to religion.

The Text is plural. Which is not simply to say that it has several meanings, but that it accomplishes the very plural of meaning: an irreducible (and not merely an acceptable) plural. The Text is not a co-existence of meanings but a passage, an overcrossing; thus it answers not to an interpretation, even a liberal one, but to an explosion, a dissemination.

Every good work should have at least ten meanings.

Always leave room for the reader to supply meanings.

Reality' is a word with many meanings.

One writes to find words' meanings.

When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.

Photographs freed from the scientific bias can, and indeed usually do, have double meanings, implied meanings, unintended meanings, can hint and insinuate, and may even mean the opposite of what they apparently mean.

The greeting of peace (as-salamu 'alaykum) has many meanings. One of these meanings is that the person you are greeting will be safe from you (from your tongue, your heart, and your hand) and that you will not transgress against that person with your words or your deeds. This greeting is also a prayer for peace, safety, mercy, and blessings. We should take these noble meanings, which we so often say with our tongues, and make them our way of life in our dealings with other people.

I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings.

I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the figures the meanings of the demonstrations, meanings which I myself originally put into the figures and the text from my mind. But when I attempt to remedy the obscurity of the material by putting in extra words, I see myself falling into the opposite fault of becoming chatty in something mathematical.

What is it about sex? Is it the sensations, or is it the meanings and the communication game that's tied into that.