Meaning Quotes

I always tell people, 'It'll get greater later' meaning that sometimes we have to pass through whatever it is. We know that we can get through it because others have.

Jennifer Holliday

PeopleMeaningKnowSometimesOthers

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.

Mark Haddon

MyselfI AmChurchQuestionsMeaning

The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape.

Rachel Cusk

MotherAloneMeMeaningBodyEscape

I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk calmly next to through a complicated situation, and he or she would be alive to its meaning and ironies. And you wouldn't even have to mention them out loud to each other.

Rachel Kushner

WalkSomeoneMeaningYouSituation

Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.

Jon Stewart

AmericaMeaningLostConservative

The meaning of yoga is connection of mind, body and spirit. If you have a bad telecommunication system, your body gets sick. Yoga helps fix that.

Bikram Choudhury

MindSickMeaningYouBodyBad

As a writer, I can't really take days off. Writing is like creating an art. Once you stop writing, you can lose your rhythm and context, meaning that your writing may lose its power.

Andrea Hirata

PowerArtWritingMeaningYouLose

My interest is in how meaning is communicated via language, and I believe the shape, positioning, even the color of the language has an effect on meaning.

Mark Z. Danielewski

BelieveColorLanguageMeaningShape

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

Orson Welles

MeaningYouToo MuchWantMoreAct

People don't realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn't change that. Fame doesn't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a different kind of problems.

Dolly Parton

ChangeBusinessMoneyPeopleMeaning

I never see myself as the famous person. It never was a part of my life, and I hope this doesn't become the most eminent thing about what I do. I just hope that I'll do things that have meaning for me and for others somehow.

Ayelet Zurer

LifeHopeMyselfMeMy LifeMeaning

Whenever I use an uncommon word, I try to indicate its meaning within the text.

Melanie Rawn

MeaningTryWithinUncommonText

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

Mortimer Adler

YourselfBookQuestionsMeaningYou

I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.

Nate Berkus

HomeMeLovedMeaningConnection

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Dorothy Allison

TruthMeaningFictionLiesPiece

You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning.

Alexander Kluge

CommunityYourselfPeopleMeaning

Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.'

Maya Angelou

SayingTraditionTalkingMeaningGot

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.

Mark Rothko

MeaningPicturesLivingNormalBeen

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.

Mahalia Jackson

MeSongBetterMeaningYouFeeling

Those people who think they know the Gospel, and it doesn't have any meaning for them, they're the people we have to find a way to touch, to invite once again to the embrace of Christ.

Donald Wuerl

PeopleThinkMeaningFindKnowWay

We have to fulfill what the real meaning of the Second Amendment is: reasonable access to guns for self-protection and for hunting. And there's no room in America for these semiautomatic, automatic and other kinds of weapons that are simply designed to cause mass havoc.

Alan Dershowitz

AmericaMeaningHuntingAmendment

In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics.

Robert Lanza

LifeSongMeaningWhateverBecause

Make gifts meaningful by putting the time in creating them, whether baking and cooking, or in making arts and craft. It will all have more meaning for the giver and receiver.

Lidia Bastianich

TimeCookingBakingMeaningCreating

But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.

Jack Kingston

MarriageWomanManMeaningWhether

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