Top 478 Meanings Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Don't sign your name between worlds, surmount the manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live.

You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all that you look at.

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

Never would forever, with all its meanings, be so clear and distinct as in the true, guaranteed end of the world.

The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Woody says I can make jokes, but I don't get them - I'm always looking deeper for the meanings.

Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.

The Constitution is a 200-year-old parchment, simply because we digitize the words should not suggest their meanings change.

I'm more interested in the meanings and the bands that fill up the spaces known as new wave and post punk.

One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

My job is to tell good stories, convey meanings, invoke emotion as well as I can. I'd rather be doing that than anything else.

Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so I strongly believe that it can be more powerful at times.

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words.

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.

Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working.

Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.

You can't be too concerned with the philosophical meanings of the character and how it will affect everything else.

I use a lot of double meanings. I hide 'em like Easter eggs.

Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.

The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.

Gianni Agnelli was a sharp mind, and most of his interviews carried meanings between the lines that only now are fully readable.

Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.

No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day.

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate lots of meanings and translations.

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices.

The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.

I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject.

We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!

If you see there is no meaning to anything that you are doing, your ego collapses; so you are trying to find all kinds of fake meanings.

Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience.

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

A lot of my paintings have quite negative meanings, but painted in a bright and cheerful way.

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that 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. Or so he seemed to grok. Short human words were never like a short Martian word - such as grok which forever meant exactly the same thing. Short human words were like trying to lift water with a knife. And this had been a very short word.

For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality.

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings

I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have.

Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.

Muslims have different meanings for the same words that we use. They are so convinced of the "truth" of Islam that they do not perceive Jihad/terrorism, or dhimmitude as violence.

All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective.

Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.

Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

'Frankenstein' is a work rich in possible meanings, so the horror-show interpretation is as valid as any.

In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more efficiently.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.