Meanings Quotes

329 Meanings quotes by 277 unique authors

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's… — Lewis Mumford
The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly. — Vance Packard
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects. — Blaise Pascal
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings. — Octavio Paz
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. — Jackson Pollock
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year… — Marcel Proust
To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right… — George Saunders
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. — George Santayana
So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some… — George Saunders
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. — Henry David Thoreau
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid… — William Makepeace Thackeray
I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge. — George Edward Woodberry
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things… — Oscar Wilde
I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our job is to… — Haruki Murakami
People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates… — Philip Pullman
Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves… — Terry Pratchett
That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific-chair, eye, stone- but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were… — Janet Fitch
The inflections of community are important because they get at the very meanings of marriage. Marriage is a gift God gives the church. He does… — Lauren F. Winner
The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on… — Alberto Manguel
My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to… — Philip Roth
I am an act of kneading, of uniting and joining that not only has produced both a creature of darkness and a creature of light,… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
Who cares what the color means? How do you know what he meant to say? I mean, did he leave another book called "Symbolism in… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Never would forever, with all its meanings, be so clear and distinct as in the true, guaranteed end of the world. — Sarah Dessen
I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this does not stop… — Roland Barthes
Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. — Graham Greene

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