Meanings Quotes

329 Meanings quotes by 277 unique authors

He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way, leaving him to… — T.H. White
Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain for a few… — Margaret Mitchell
Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right. — Roald Dahl
Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch.… — Anne Carson
My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads and sagas. Pray… — Frances Hardinge
It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words. — Haruki Murakami
The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer… — Thomas Merton
Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at… — David Levithan
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. — Oscar Wilde
Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor. — Graham Greene
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities. — Don DeLillo
The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no… — John Green
That’s what i love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff were your not sure what the poets talking about. You may have… — Jay Asher
I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of… — Gaston Bachelard
Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't know for certain… — Susan Fletcher
The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Then there is the business of… — Gore Vidal
Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind. — Siri Hustvedt
She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her. — Unknown Author
Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, and even if the words have meaning, can sometimes have meaning, the music… — Paul Auster
Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you… — Hilary Mantel
Everything is what it is, that's all. If we keep attaching meanings and mysteries to everything we perceive, everything we see that is, and to… — Thomas Bernhard
That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about. You may have… — Jay Asher
The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in… — Gregory Maguire
...It felt like they were telling each other secrets. Everything they said felt like that—whispered, tender, full of other meanings, like when you tell someone… — Francesca Lia Block
When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of… — Octavio Paz

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