Meaning Quotes

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.

I love sport as long as it's kept as an entertainment - not a meaning of life.

If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

If you make money, you might not make meaning.

Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.

One of the annoying things when you're in a movie is that gets talked about is everyone projects meaning onto everyone's intentions.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

If there's a song that stops meaning anything to me, then I'll quit playing it.

I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

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

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.

A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning.

Man - a being in search of meaning.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier.

The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.

Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.

The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.

When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.

If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

The meaning of life... I think the meaning of life is, I think it's love.

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.

The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.

I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn't already.

Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object.

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.

You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.