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There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.
— Toni Morrison
I said what might have been a bad word meaning excrement, but I hope that I used a polite synonym.
— Dean Koontz
Looked for meaning in every word while men just stared at boobs. Maybe she should content herself to staring at their butts and call it a day.
— Katie Graykowski
Better than a thousand sayingsMade up of useless words
Is one word of meaning
Which calms you to hear it. — Anonymous
A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.
— N. Scott Momaday
The word 'essay' comes from a root meaning 'trial' or 'attempt',
— Gavin Francis
The spoken word and the written - there is an astonishing gulf between them. There is a way of turning sentences that completely reverses the meaning.
— Agatha Christie
A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.
— Flannery O'Connor
Fate.A word meaning destiny.
Fate.
A word meaning doom. — Colleen Hoover
The meaning of a word is its use in the language.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word trouble' loses much of its meaning.
— Dennis Hopper
I know there's a word called "miracle". But I don't know if there's a meaning inside the word, "miracle
— Dante Soo
I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean.
— Lisa Glatt
Ah, yes, divorce ... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
— Robin Williams
When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.
— Mark Steyn
When I was a little kid, I realized that if you say any word over and over fast enough, it loses all it's meaning.
— Cassandra Clare
The real meaning of the word paranoia isa man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected. — John Coleman
According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.
— Roy Blount Jr.
Without a word, my dog taught me the meaning of love.
— Leila Grandemange
Good's a pretty funny word. Never seems to have the same meaning to any two people" -T. Walker
— Holly Schindler
It's tough to have an authentic relationship with awe in the age of awesome, a word that has become so overused as to be drained of its meaning.
— Sharon Salzberg
The meaning of a word - to me - is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
Conundrum: A fun word to repeat over and over again when no one's listening. Actual meaning is as puzzling as the need to chant the word.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Again, the troubling gap between word and meaning. My feeble language skills could not bear the weight of such a laden experience.
— Alison Bechdel
Nudist Colony Halloween parties are especially scary. They give the word "moon" a new cruel meaning.
— Ray Palla
If there are older black people in the audience that I can see I will not say the n-word. I know they grew up with a different meaning.
— Neal Brennan
Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
— Pablo Picasso
Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.
— Aelred Of Rievaulx
Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.
— Robin Morgan
Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.
— Maureen Johnson
I am unfortunate in using a word which may convey a meaning - and evidently does - quite opposite to my intention.
— Charles Dickens
Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word.
— Stanley Cavell
Moving from phonetics to etymology, 'vagina' originates from a word meaning sheath for a sword. Ain't got no vagina.
— Inga Muscio
Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.
— John Of Salisbury
I'm a bachelor in the old sense of the word, meaning I flirt, I have very many close relationships, but then I come home and like to read my book.
— William Ivey Long
Baby, if you let me take you out of here, I'll give the word pleasure a whole new meaning. - Drew Evans
— Emma Chase
You know when you look at a word on the page, I mean really look at it, it suddenly loses all meaning?
— Jaden Wilkes
Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.
— David Brin
A useful word previously unknown to me: 'ergophobia', meaning 'fear or hatred of work'. At last I can define myself in one word.
— Kenneth Tynan
Is that the secret meaning of the word story, do you think: a storing place of memories?
— J.M. Coetzee
I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'
— Craig Ferguson
I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.
— Emily Dickinson
Would I ever find forever love? Do I really want to, when forever was a word without meaning?
— Ellen Hopkins
The original Greek meaning of the word anthology is a collection or gathering of flowers in bloom.
— Jane Garmey
Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.
— Gautama Buddha
You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion.
— Kenneth Goldsmith
You can't hear a word and just hear it as raw sound; it always evokes an associated meaning and emotion in the brain.
— Steven Pinker
I've figured out there's a difference between the meaning of the word 'real' and the meaning of the word 'true.
— Martine Leavitt
Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?
— Ellen Hopkins
And then there was Johan Cruyff, who at 35 has added a whole new meaning to the word Anno Domini.
— Archie Macpherson
It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it all the associations which a different word has. — David Ben-Gurion
The word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.
— Joyce Maynard
A great word becomes a great sentence with great meaning from great writers who have a great imagination and who enchant greatness
— Mark Peter Evans
gifts - that strange word, a signifier meaning disappointment you can hold in your hands.
— Jeanette Winterson
How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)
— Edmond Jabes
Offer yourself forgiveness as a gift. The word 'give' is the basic keyword in the word forgiveness, therefore it relays a meaning therein.
— Stephen Richards
I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.
— Frederick Salomon Perls
Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'
— Oscar Wilde
Living a life with meaning means spreading the word. Even if you can't move, you can have a powerful effect with what you say.
— Christopher Reeve
The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.
— Jack Prelutsky
Anyone who turns love between two consenting adults into a negative, doesn't understand the meaning of the word.
— Fran Drescher
Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.
— Anders Chydenius
It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.
— Sarah Silverman
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
— Friedrich Schiller
The word 'algebra' derives from Al-Khawarizmi's book title "al-jabr", meaning "completion"; balancing both sides to find a solution
— Firas Alkhateeb
