I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
Eddie Van Halen
BusinessGlitterRock StarMeaning
Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.
Antonin Scalia
ChangeWordsMeaning
There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary.
Marcel Duchamp
WordsValueMeaningSomethingLike
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick
MusicMeaningFeelingsMoviesMore
I wrote the script to 'Lady Bird,' and it really came out of a desire to make a project about home - like, what the meaning of home is, and place. I knew Sacramento very well, obviously, growing up there, and I felt like the right way to tell a story of a place was through a person who's about to leave it.
Greta Gerwig
HomeBirdGrowing UpStoryMeaning
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
B. R. Ambedkar
GoodReligionEthicsPeopleMeaning
I see 'Hansel and Gretel' as a breakthrough book for me, and one of the reasons is because I started to apply meaning to the hidden details.
Anthony Browne
MeBookDetailsMeaningHiddenSee
Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, 'Earth' meaning the riches of the earth, simple physical work. That is why there were wars, the movement of frontiers, war over riches.
Lech Walesa
WorkSimpleWarMeaningEarthSay
African-Americans assume I'm named after the notorious Soledad prison or Mount Soledad in California. Latinos want to know if I'm lonely. That doesn't fit, because I grew up with five siblings, and I have four kids of my own, so I'm not lonely at all, though I do often seek solitude, the actual meaning of my name.
Soledad O'Brien
SolitudePrisonNameLonelyMeaning
Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
Hermann Hesse
RealityMeaningHiddenThingsBehind
I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.
Wynn Bullock
NatureTreeMeMeaningWantWeed
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
Jacques Barzun
ArtMeaningMemorableFormSensation
Putting is so difficult, so universally vexing, that the best the pros can do is tell us how to miss. 'Miss it on the pro side,' they say, meaning miss it above the hole. I can't even do that consistently. I miss it on the pro side. I miss it on the amateur side. I miss it on both sides of the clown's mouth.
Steve Rushin
BestMeaningMouthSayDifficult
The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.
Gilbert Murray
MeaningMisunderstandingLimitModern
There is this looking at the world as shapes and patterns and colors that have meaning, and you can't deny the superficial because the superficial is what meets the eye.
Wolfgang Tillmans
ColorsWorldLookingEyeMeaning
A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning.
Katherine Paterson
StoryMeaningYouOwnMakeYour
History can show you that it was one pile of bad stuff after another. It can also show you that there's been tremendous progress in knowledge, behaviour, laws, civilisation. It cannot show you that there was a meaning behind it.
Tony Judt
KnowledgeHistoryProgressMeaning
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
Graham Greene
WorldInnocenceMeaningDumbLost
When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.
William Shatner
MeaningLookAudienceAgainAd
Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.
Isaac Hanson
ParentsPeopleAmbitionHelpMeaning
That's mostly what the Internet is, just passing the time. But unfortunately you are dealing with words that can have meaning.
Tom Wolfe
TimeWordsInternetMeaningYou
I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling.
George R. R. Martin
FootballFriendsMeaningEnjoyGames
If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
Plato
MeaningMust
Early in my teaching days, the kids asked me the meaning of a poem. I replied, 'I don't know any more than you do. I have ideas. What are your ideas?' I realized then that we're all in the same boat. What does anybody know?
Frank McCourt
MeIdeasBoatMeaningYouEarly
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