Meanings Quotes

329 Meanings quotes by 277 unique authors

There was no pretention here, no hidden meanings in the phrases they spoke, no elaborate plans designed to impress the other. Though it had always… — Nicholas Sparks
What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell… — Margaret Drabble
Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings. — Kay Redfield Jamison
We should not be post-racial: seeking to get beyond the uplifting meanings and edifying registers of blackness. Rather, we should be post-racist: moving beyond cultural… — Michael Eric Dyson
Don't sign your name between worlds, surmount the manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live. — Paul Celan
It is both revealing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book and mingle with the… — Gordon B. Hinckley
I had always assumed we had an unspoken understanding about these things: that she didn't really mean I was a failure, and I really meant… — Amy Tan
A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed… — Upton Sinclair
This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign… — Sarah Dessen
Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them. — Jasper Fforde
In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the life of words… — Robert Hughes
How long have I been here, what a question, I've often wondered. And often I could answer, An hour, a month, a year, a century,… — Samuel Beckett
Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the… — Salman Rushdie
I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense. Still, you know, words mean more than we mean to express when we use them;… — Lewis Carroll
Some words have multiple meanings. Scholastic, aware that I'm allergic to preservatives, kindly got someone to translate the phrase "I can only eat food without… — Maggie Stiefvater
Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing… — Robert A. Heinlein
When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have… — Milan Kundera
There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are "nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations." But as for myself, I would… — Viktor E. Frankl
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract… — Fernando Pessoa
Reality' is a word with many meanings. — Peter Brook
Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had… — Jennifer Egan
Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings. — Charlotte Bronte
I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes such cupidity will send you… — Harlan Ellison

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