Meanings Quotes

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau

Friendship, Words, Language

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Good, Him, Word

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
Blaise Pascal

Words, Different, Meaning

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

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
Marcel Proust

Change, Words, Two

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

Give, Ourselves, Determined

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

Experience, Word, Thousand

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
W. E. B. Du Bois

Words, Fact, Read

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.
David Lynch

Mean, Different, Else

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace Thackeray

History, Down, Thoughts

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.
David Bohm

Real, Revolution, Others

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
Jackson Pollock

Art, Off, Modern

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
George Herbert

Good, Hell, Full

To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway.
George Saunders

Yourself, Care, Job

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.
Lewis Mumford

Nothing, Word, Values

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

Social, Criticism, Begins

So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some little seed crystal of interest, a sentence or an image or an idea, and as much as possible divest myself of any deep ideas about it. And then by this process of revision, mysteriously it starts to accrete meanings as you go.
George Saunders

Deep, Find, Try

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

God, Put, Lives

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

Books, Beginnings, Endings

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.
Kenneth L. Pike

Universe, Language, Rules

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

Change, Human, Present

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

Everything, Choice

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
Henri Bergson

Different, Two, Situation

In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you can come to a lot of meanings within a short space.
Karen Russell

Short, Almost, Within

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.
John Barton

Sometimes, Become, Word

The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.
Roman Jakobson

Light, Between, Speech

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.
George H. Mead

Life, Nature, Art

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.
Jonathan Miller

Work, Fashion, Against

For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.
Utada Hikaru

Lost, Process, English

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

Music, Listener, Interpret

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