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Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.
— John Dewey
Simple words can be given powerful meanings. Wit and wisdom are simple words that speak to truth.
— Jim Boyd
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
— Marcel Proust
In every cell in every body in every living thing, strings of words make sentences, meanings locked together
— Johnny Rich
I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.
— Julie Taymor
Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
— Jasper Fforde
Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.
— Sanford Meisner
It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
— Haruki Murakami
Words are like bodies; meanings are like souls.
— Moses Ibn Ezra
The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.
— Markus Zusak
You know sometimes words have two meanings.
— Robert Plant
Numbers have no hidden meanings, you say. But it is the hidden meanings in words that make them so wonderful.
— Simon Mawer
Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
— Blaise Pascal
Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?
— Dean Koontz
It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words.
— Wilson Follett
Words cannot only be made ... But made to have a meaning, free the tongue and continue your speech.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
— Evelyn Waugh
I wish I didn't need words to speak to her. They sometimes hold very different meanings for us both.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Mizuko loved reading the dictionary. She liked it when there were multiple meanings for words and when opposite meanings could be contained.
— Olivia Sudjic
One writes to find words' meanings.
— Joy Williams
You never feel more aware of what it means to be alive than when you're falling in love. Or dying.
— Kate Bassett
The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.
— S.I. Hayakawa
Boris Pasternak said that poetry makes itself from the relationship between the sounds and the meanings of words.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Take words and make them useful,' she told me. 'drain them of all the crappy meanings they used to mean and make them mean something useful instead.
— Scott Bradfield
This was not the first time she had squeezed meanings from his words that he never knew were in them.
— Robert Jordan
I love the idea that a name might change based on who you are at a given moment in time. Lia — Jodi Picoult
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
— Henry David Thoreau
Silence is a great companion when words are devoid of meanings.
— Nema Al-Araby
A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Words take on many different meanings.
— Erin McKean