Interests Quote by Ali Smith Download Open image ““A man interested in the meaning of words, not one whose interests leave words meaningless.”” — Ali Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Interests Language Meaning Words
“If a man cannot invest his life, or any part of it, with meaning, all he has left are distractions from meaninglessness, although few… — Daniel Klein Copy Share Image
“A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech- he will measure every word.” — Arun Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It's easy to waste too many words—and too much energy—on nonsense we don't even care about. What a relief it is to start giving… — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
“Man is a Meaning Seeking Creature Thrown to Meaningless World. Find out Your Meaning in Your Life Situations and Experience and Enrich Your Lif” — Existential Philosophy Copy Share Image
“Again, the troubling gap between word and meaning. My feeble language skills could not bear the weight of such a laden experience.” — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“There are some feelings, and actions, for which words are utterly useless.” — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“We have all met a class of men, very remarkable for their activity, and who yet make but little headway in life; men who,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“One that has well digested his knowledge both of books and men, has little enjoyment but in the company of a few select companions.… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Choose your words wisely with consideration for others & self because repetitive, meaningless words...leave people tone deaf.” — Sanjo Jendayi Copy Share Image
“The gentleman does not promote people merely on the basis of their words, nor does he reject words merely because of the person who… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Those men who live with the greatest intensity are often the ones who seem to take least interest in life.” — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“Elisabeth had been listening to the programme in the bath. She'd switched the radio off after it and wondered if she'd be able to… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look. — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“I could lick it off with my tongue, if I had a tongue again, if my tongue was wet, and I could taste it… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“...he had simply typed the words something beautiful into the Google images box. Up came a picture of some leaves against the sun. A… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
What shop did this book come from? she asked. Her father was looking worried at the cooker. He always got rice wrong. I don't… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are? — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
If you can read the world as a construct, you can ask questions of the construct, and you can suggest ways to change the… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“I’m tired of the news. I’m tired of the way it makes things spectacular that aren’t, and deals so simplistically with what’s truly appalling.… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose… — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries. — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
I will support my party when they are right on an issue, but am not afraid to stand up to party bosses who are… — Darlene Senger Copy Share Image
It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so… — Bernhard von Bulow Copy Share Image
I like characters with problems. I like to understand them... To play alcoholics, fetishists, strange girls, you have to dig deep within yourself. It's… — Marie Trintignant Copy Share Image
“Corporate controlled governments protect the interests of the corporations and not the common people.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children. — Albert Shanker Copy Share Image
“As is the way in political matters, all were convinced that the interests of the community and their own personal interests were one and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I try to stay away from calling people nerds or whatever, because I've got my own fetishes and interests. — Kyle Kinane Copy Share Image