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Don't sign your name
between worlds,
surmount
the manifold of meanings,
trust the tearstain,
learn to live. — Paul Celan
between worlds,
surmount
the manifold of meanings,
trust the tearstain,
learn to live. — Paul Celan
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
People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.
— Juliana Hatfield
The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.
— Mark Twain
She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.
— Rumi
With respect to those meanings of 'human' that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig,
— Richard Dawkins
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
— Oscar Wilde
Being cryptic is an art unto itself.
— Shannon L. Alder
In every cell in every body in every living thing, strings of words make sentences, meanings locked together
— Johnny Rich
To say that ... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
— B.F. Skinner
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.
— Kenneth L. Pike
Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
— Jasper Fforde
When our internal reference point is the ego or self-image, we feel cut off from our source, and the uncertainty of events creates fear and doubt.
— Deepak Chopra
They were like two sides of the same coin, but with two different meanings and purposes. So different, yet so similar in profound ways.
— A.A. Gupte
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
— Don DeLillo
Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.
— Charlotte Bronte
Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body.
— Timothy Leary
I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject.
— Wolfgang Tillmans
The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.
— Susanne Katherina Langer
We translated each other's meanings and I seemed to hear less than what was said, while my mother heard more.
— Amy Tan
Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.
— Sanford Meisner
Cut the pie any way you like, "meanings" just ain't in the head!
— Hilary Putnam
To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.
— George Herbert Mead
Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.
— Hal Duncan
When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.
— Deepak Chopra
Senses are the means
Life lies in the means
Life has no connotations — Satbir Singh Noor
Life lies in the means
Life has no connotations — Satbir Singh Noor
Along with the loss of the sense of self has gone a loss of our language for communicating deeply personal meanings to each other.
— Rollo May
The world we all share is the same in important respects. But in some deep ways, the lived world and its meanings are radically different.
— Peg O'Connor
We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I try to write in a way where the lyrics have many meanings and you won't really know what's behind it.
— Taylor Momsen
Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the imaginary?
— Jean-Luc Godard
So that made me happy but the part that really made me happy was that you wanted me to be happy. That's what Thank you means.
— Margaret Atwood
Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Our language places us in a cultural continuum, linking us to the past, and showing our meanings also to future fellow-speakers.
— Nicholas Ostler
We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends. And in so doing, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves. Now
— Jacqueline Carey
Boris Pasternak said that poetry makes itself from the relationship between the sounds and the meanings of words.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Write as if life has no meanings without writing.
— Debasish Mridha
The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed and you don't know what you're going to do next.
— Dan Fogelberg
1. Old Testament narratives are not allegories or stories filled with hidden meanings
— Gordon D. Fee
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
I wanted the song to contain various meanings, and what I wanted in particular was to appeal to the audience with my charms as a man.
— Seungri
What is this? He has a sensation of touching glass. He doesn't know if they are talking about nothing or making code for the deepest meanings.
— John Updike
Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.
— Rebecca Solnit
This was not the first time she had squeezed meanings from his words that he never knew were in them.
— Robert Jordan
For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.
— Walt Whitman
I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.
— Reeve Carney
Oh. It was one those ohs that came packed with layers of meaning - none of which merely meant oh.
— Nicki Elson
Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.
— Kathleen Raine
This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.
— Werner Erhard
Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Finding meaning in the moment is what gives those meanings a value worth remembering.
— Steven Redhead
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
— George Santayana
If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.
— Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston - The Last Emperor
But so strong is our desire for meaning, an innate desire, that we construct meanings where there are none.
— David Cronenberg
Don't look for the meanings; look for the use.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
— John Locke
Silence is a great companion when words are devoid of meanings.
— Nema Al-Araby
Good software results from the proper organization of components, not from syntactic or semantic restrictions. Meanings
— Alexander Stepanov
It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.
— Maurice Sendak
Love has only feelings, but no meanings.
— Debasish Mridha
I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate lots of meanings and translations.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
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
All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective.
— Ian Curtis
One line plus one line results in many meanings.
— Josef Albers
The reader may not see [these meanings], but they have their effect on him nonetheless. This is the way the modern novelist sinks, or hides his theme
— Flannery O'Connor
Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.
— Christopher Bram
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
— Jackson Pollock
Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.
— Lev Grossman
(Emerson's) aphorisms tend to be chicken soup for the academic soul or gobledygook of a man who prefers the sounds of words to their meanings.
— Micah Mattix
Meanings with no purpose are useful for meaningless debates on what the "meaner" meant. And that's what #politics is all about - misreading.
— Will Advise
In the end, Mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.
— Randy Susan Meyers
Practices are cultural: they do not submit to the meanings that an individual wants them to have, either for herself or for others.
— Clare Chambers
You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.
— David Levithan
Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.
— Aristotle.
I love the idea that a name might change based on who you are at a given moment in time.
Lia — Jodi Picoult
Lia — Jodi Picoult
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
— Henry David Thoreau
Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.
— Marina Warner
Change your meanings you alter your destiny. Life does not give us what we want. Life gives us whatever we expect.
— Harold Homer Anderson
When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.
— David Byrne
Everything in everybody's life is ... significant. And everybody is alert, watching for the meanings.
— Tom Wolfe
Myths, told for their own sake, are not stories that have meanings, but stories that give meanings.
— James P. Carse
We shouldn't ask if life has a meaning, we should ask to whom life has what kinds of meanings
— S.E. Sever
Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.
— James Russell Lowell
Never would forever, with all its meanings, be so clear and distinct as in the true, guaranteed end of the world.
— Sarah Dessen