Meanings Quotes

329 Meanings quotes by 277 unique authors

With respect to those meanings of 'human' that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig, — Richard Dawkins
HAIL HERMES! Mr. Lantiere has created something very special for all of us who love the history of mystery. The Magicician's Wand book opens doors… — Jeff McBride
I try to make art which celebrates doubt and uncertainty. Which provokes answers but doesn't give them. Which withholds absolute meaning by incorporating parasite meanings.… — Sherrie Levine
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. — Alfred Stieglitz
Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning. — Sanford Meisner
To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables. — B.F. Skinner
Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not. — Marina Tsvetaeva
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… — Bridget Riley
When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings. — David Byrne
When we complain of having to do the same thing over and over, let us remember that God does not send new trees, strange flowers… — Helen Keller
Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of the theory itself. The general… — David Cassidy
Many of us reject all of the inferior meanings and connotations that others project onto femininity - that it is weak, artificial, frivolous, demure, and… — Julia Serano
The Japanese garden is a very important tool in Japanese architectural design because, not only is a garden traditionally included in any house design, the… — Unknown Author
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… — Karen Russell
There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real… — Jerome Bruner
Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The ultimate… — Susan Sontag
To perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were… — Carl Rogers
The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and… — Carl Rogers
In our time, what is at issue is the very nature of man, the image we have of his limits and possibilities as a man.… — C. Wright Mills
What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an… — Robert Dallek
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… — Jay Maisel
Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and technics: they relate,… — Lewis Mumford
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient… — Jack Vance
Feminist theory has left an indelible mark on my own critical—and creative—thinking . . . For me, everything I questioned about what it meant to… — Todd Haynes
The law is the survival of the fittest.... The law is not the survival of the 'better' or the 'stronger,' if we give to those… — Herbert Spencer

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