Meanings Quotes

It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It`s better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it`s a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.

People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.

The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion.

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

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

I`m not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings.

The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.

I`m not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word`s meaning, or multiple meanings.

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

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.

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.

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

a real alternative, a set of meanings and values that can stand at a critical and redemptive distance from contemporary culture.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.