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329 Meanings quotes by 277 unique authors
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Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by…
— Leland Ryken
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You know sometimes words have two meanings.
— Robert Plant
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Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.
— Nate Berkus
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Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All hopes, benefactions, bestowals,…
— Walt Whitman
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Light is my inspiration. My photographic images search for dimensions that words cannot touch- the result of intense responses to personal experiences. I do not…
— Ruth Bernhard
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A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those…
— Gore Vidal
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The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.
— Susanne Katherina Langer
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Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.
— Blaise Pascal
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You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience.
— Lewis Mumford
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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.
— Werner Erhard
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The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed and you don't know what you're going to do next.
— Dan Fogelberg
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People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I…
— Gary Larson
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I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.
— Julie Taymor
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The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in…
— William Greider
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The Constitution is a 200-year-old parchment, simply because we digitize the words should not suggest their meanings change.
— Ed Markey
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How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into elastic patterns called…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings,…
— Willard Gaylin
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At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and meanings. They tend to slip…
— Robert Burchfield
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Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.
— Kenneth Lee Pike
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I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.
— Reeve Carney
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
— Caio Fonseca
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There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings…
— John M. Ford
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
— Rachel Kushner
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In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.
— Peter Zumthor
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