Meaning Quotes

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Hermann Hesse

FaithHistoryChaosMeaningStudy

Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.

Allen West

DayMeaningCountryForgottenWorse

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

Jacques Audiard

RelationshipMeMeaningCinemaSee

Working with Madonna, she always told me the meaning behind the steps and why I was doing these steps - she treated us like actors. So I feel like I've always been an actor, truly.

Sofia Boutella

MeFeelDoingMeaningWhyActor

The pitch is the most beautiful part of the game; it gives you emotions which bring meaning to life.

Gianluigi Buffon

LifeBeautifulGameMeaningYou

Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.

Wole Soyinka

LifeServiceMeaningLongHumanity

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Katherine Mansfield

WordsMeaningWithoutConsciousness

I watch mostly every martial arts movie... I really like movies that aren't just martial arts. I like movies that have spiritual meaning behind them, like samurai movies, or movies that have meditation.

Tony Jaa

SpiritualMeaningMeditationMovies

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Graham Greene

WorldInnocenceMeaningDumbLost

Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.

William Safire

TiredFeelMeaningKnowSometimes

I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.

Geoffrey Rush

LoveWordsMeaningFindFocusedHow

What is it about animation, graphics, illustrations, that create meaning? And this is an important question to ask and answer because the more we understand how the brain creates meaning, the better we can communicate, and, I also think, the better we can think and collaborate together.

Tom Wujec

TogetherBrainThinkBetterMeaning

I read 'The Washington Post' every day from a very young age. Reading the newspaper taught me how to organize my thoughts on the page. Meaning, it taught me how to write.

George Pelecanos

AgeDayMeThoughtsReadingMeaning

Man - a being in search of meaning.

Plato

ManSearchMeaningBeing

I wanted to write a novel where the meaning is in the story and characters and the subliminal, in the shades and nuances. It's exciting to develop that as a writer.

Frank Peretti

StoryMeaningWriteShadesWhere

Rehearsing a scene beds a role into you. But sometimes, if you over-rehearse it without unearthing any new meaning in it, you can suddenly forget your lines. You realise that you are on a stage, not in the real world. The scene's emotional power, and your immersion in it, disappears.

Riz Ahmed

PowerWorldMeaningYouSometimes

Do I have to see movies and television about the English throne or the Holocaust every year? There are multiple multi-million dollar movies with the same backdrop. But our Holocaust - meaning Latino - aren't ever told.

Esai Morales

MeaningYearTelevisionHolocaust

With every project, there are things that surprise you with the meaning they take on as you start to use them.

Phil Schiller

StartSurpriseMeaningYouProject

In music, you can use metaphors with ease - if a person doesn't understand the parable, they can still enjoy the melody of the music. If, however, a person reads a book and misses the meaning of its metaphors, this will be extremely disheartening for both the reader as well as the author.

Cat Stevens

MusicBookMeaningEnjoyYouPerson

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

Ronnie Barker

MeaningMeanJokeDoubleOne Thing

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

Ernest Holmes

WordsReligionChristianMeaning

If we focus on the minuses, we go down the spiral. But if we are able to focus on the pluses, we can become stronger and put more meaning into our life.

Petra Nemcova

LifeFocusMeaningStrongerDownGo

I feel like there are some careers that do have a higher meaning.

Daniel Lyons

FeelMeaningI Feel LikeLikeHigher

The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning.

Roy Haynes

LeaderYouthEnergyMeaningYoung

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