I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.
Julian Casablancas
FocusSimpleSongMeaningDouble
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. Lewis
TruthImaginationMeaningReason
Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
Armstrong Williams
DemocracyActionFreeMeaningHand
The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.
Ned Rorem
MusicSpeakMeaningArtsBecause
My 3-year-old daughter is somewhat psychic. I hate the abuse of that word, so let's just say... intuitive. She was born 'in the caul,' meaning my water never broke, and superstition says that makes a child psychic.
Alysia Reiner
DaughterWaterHateChildMeaning
In song the same rule applies as in dramatic verse: the meaning must yield itself, or yield itself sufficiently to arouse the attention and interest, in real time.
James Fenton
TimeSongMeaningAttentionReal
To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.
Dan Castellaneta
LoserMeaningLazyMayWellSure
The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
Anton Chekhov
NatureSeaMeaningPityNorNeither
I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.
Margaret Atwood
WordsPoetryMeThinkMeaningSound
Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.
Stephen Tobolowsky
MemoryBrainForwardMeaningYou
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.
Herbert Gold
BeautyTruthMemoriesMeaningEdge
Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
Barry Ritholtz
MoneySmallMeaningYearYouHigh
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
Ansel Adams
WorldPresentMeaningPhotography
Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.
Layne Staley
LifeDayPerceptionMeaningChanges
Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.
Sue Monk Kidd
WorkHomeSoulIdentityMeaning
Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
Herbie Hancock
FutureWisdomPurposeMeaning
This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.
Allen Weinstein
FierceDoingMeaningHeritageDesire
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
Katherine Anne Porter
LifeWorkTogetherChaosMeaning
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
Socrates
KnowledgeMeaningYouKnowTrue
Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
Henri Matisse
MeaningJazzRhythm
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston Churchill
FearMeaningSometimesModernSense
I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.
Kate Winslet
WomenMoneyFamousMeaningYouSkin
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Toni Morrison
LifeLanguageDieMeaningMeasure
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
Gore Vidal
LifeRoadsMeaningSexDoneNothing
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