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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

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures. — Robin Williams

I said what might have been a bad word meaning excrement, but I hope that I used a polite synonym. — Dean Koontz

My personal style comes from jugaad, a Hindi word meaning doing more with less. — Leila Janah

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 sayings
Made 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

Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks. — Isaac Barrow

Fate.
A word meaning destiny.
Fate.
A word meaning doom. — Colleen Hoover

If you say the same word a million times will it lose its meaning? — Nancy Huston

The meaning of a word is its use in the language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Love is just a word until you meet someone who gives it meaning. — Kate McGahan

When he replied with her name, it sounded like a new word - the syllables remained the same, the meaning was different. — Ian McEwan

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

That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of a lot of words. — Bobby Bowden

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 is
a man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected. — John Coleman

Exercising a spiritual gift without showing true love is meaningless. — Jim George

When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary. — William Safire

Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning gatherer of beautiful things. — Rob Brezsny

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

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. — Paulo Coelho

love is a simple word with a complicated meaning — Joanne

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

This creator god was called Allah, which is not a proper name but a contraction of the word al-ilah, meaning simply the god. — Reza Aslan

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

Chickamauga" is a Cherokee word meaning "river of death". *** — L.E. Johnson

Friend' is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never. — Victor Hugo

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

Eroticism. Though I doubt that they ever used this word, they embodied its mystical meaning as a quality of aliveness, a pathway to freedom — Esther Perel

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

Love is just a word untill you and that someone who comes along give it meaning — Livia

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

If we were constantly remembering that love is as love does, we would not use the word in a manner that devalues and degrades it's meaning. — Bell Hooks

Baby, if you let me take you out of here, I'll give the word pleasure a whole new meaning. - Drew Evans — Emma Chase

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning. — William Safire

A meaning without a cause or a purpose, is just another word without a meaning. — Saleem Durrani

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

Chivalry is not just a fancy word with a neat meaning; it's a way of life. — Vaughn Ripley

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

YES and NO is just a word but it have big meanings inside it. — Adel Sakura

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

Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning. — Paulo Coelho

explained Conway, "is a slang word meaning a lazy fellow, a good-for-nothing. — James Hilton

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

For me 'Thank You'. This word has a very deep meaning. — Yunho

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

Love is a cheap word. Anyone can say it, and few truly know what it means. — Julianna Scott

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

(The word "robot" is from a Czech word meaning "compulsory labor.") — Isaac Asimov

Hero is not a word we use easily, and it had gotten to the point where it had lost all meaning in our community. Everyone was a hero now. — Mark Owen

My belief is that 'recluse' is a code word generated by journalists ... meaning, doesn't like to talk to reporters ... — Thomas Pynchon

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