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The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory. — Rene Dubos
To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings. — Zhang Yimou
Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on… — Thomas Merton
We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly… — Adrienne Rich
I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed as the Big… — Bob Dylan
Our perception of space alters the space. It is consciousness that finds meanings in all spaces — Tarthang Tulku
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words… — Terry Pratchett
For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long.. suffering, where meanings… — Michael Leunig
All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective. — Ian Curtis
We are not determined by our experiences, but are self-determined by the meaning we give to them; and when we take particular experiences as the… — Alfred Adler
One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body. — Timothy Leary
If you see there is no meaning to anything that you are doing, your ego collapses; so you are trying to find all kinds of… — Jaggi Vasudev
Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It’s become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a life it is.… — Richie Benaud
Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings. — Eugene Ionesco
Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them — John Lennon
Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see it's like a portmanteau - there are two meanings packed up… — Lewis Carroll
That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change… — Willard Van Orman Quine
The subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested… — Rebecca Solnit
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… — Anne Stevenson
I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the figures the meanings… — Johannes Kepler
Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one. — James Russell Lowell
It is difficult to generalize about Islam. To begin with, the word itself is commonly used with two related but distinct meanings, as the equivalents… — Bernard Lewis
Sampling is a new way of doing something that’s been with us for a long time […] The mix breaks free from the old associations.… — DJ Spooky
An educational activity which aims to reveal meanings and relationships through the use of original objects, by firsthand experience, and by illustrative media, rather than… — Freeman Tilden

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