Top 1200 Multiple Meanings Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

In his mercy, He sent the storm itself to make us seek help. And then knowing that we're likely to get the wrong answer, He gives us a multiple choice exam with only one option to choose from: the correct answer. The hardship itself is ease. By taking away all other hand-holds, all other multiple choice options, He has made the test simple.It's never easy to stand when the storm hits. And that's exactly the point. By sending the wind, He brings us to our knees: the perfect position to pray

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

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

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

Do you have a multiple personality disorder?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

People have multiple identities.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I have multiple tattoos.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

A hundred years ago-even 20 or 30 years ago-it was possible, if not always easy, to close major business by calling on and satisfying a key decision-maker. Today, every piece of business entails multiple decisions, and those decisions are virtually never made by the same person. Not only do you have to contend with multiple decisions, but the people who make those decisions may not even work in the same place.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The linebacker has to make multiple, multiple decisions on every play. Not only what his assignment is and what the play is, but all the way along the line, different angles, how to take on blocks, how to tackle, the leverage to play with, the angle to run to and so forth, the technique. So many different things happen in a split second during the course of the play, just like it is for a quarterback. The more of those things that you can do right, slow down, get the most important things, not get distracted by all the stuff that's happening, but just really zero in on a target.