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I wonder how you'll scream when I tear out your heart and show it to you, Emma said, very calmly, her voice low, meaning every word.
— Christine Feehan
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
You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.
— Rebecca Solnit
Better than a thousand sayingsMade up of useless words
Is one word of meaning
Which calms you to hear it. — Anonymous
Home...Home.
...the word,
...has
...no
...meaning — Ellen Hopkins
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
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
The word 'happiness' does indeed have meaning, doesn't it? I shall go out in search of it.
— Mariama Ba
Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.
— Timothy Noah
Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled.
— Peggy Noonan
Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.
— Eckhart Tolle
Normal? Hateful word, normal. No meaning whatsoever.
— William Hjortsberg
In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word trouble' loses much of its meaning.
— Dennis Hopper
He gives new meaning to the word bombed.
— Lee Davidson
When you answer them, you try to put meaning in every word. That's why ... their many lies cut you.
— Otsuichi
What does it mean to be healthy? Heal Thy.
— J.R. Rim
He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.
— Bobby Bowden
Ah, yes, divorce ... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
— Robin Williams
We can say the word "metaphysical," meaning that which exists outside of the physical, but we cannot comprehend the metaphysical.
— Gerald Schroeder
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
It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.
— Sarah Silverman
We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.
— Pearl S. Buck
The word 'algebra' derives from Al-Khawarizmi's book title "al-jabr", meaning "completion"; balancing both sides to find a solution
— Firas Alkhateeb
Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.
— Anders Chydenius
It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it all the associations which a different word has. — David Ben-Gurion
My belief is that 'recluse' is a code word generated by journalists ... meaning, doesn't like to talk to reporters ...
— Thomas Pynchon
The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.
— Jack Prelutsky
Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'
— Oscar Wilde
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
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
Let nothing of the truths that have been defined be lessened, nothing altered, nothing added, but let them be preserved intact in word and in meaning.
— Pope Gregory XVI
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
Anyone who turns love between two consenting adults into a negative, doesn't understand the meaning of the word.
— Fran Drescher
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
In three word I can explain the meaning of life: love is life.
— Debasish Mridha
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
It's an old Aboriginal word meaning 'Let's get together and have fun'. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it.
— Barry Humphries
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
Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?
— Ellen Hopkins
It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.
— William J. Clinton
We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.
— Meridel Le Sueur
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
And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language
— Mary Balogh
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
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
The English word "coral" also comes from Greek, meaning "what becomes hard in the hand," "the maiden or nymph of the sea," or "the heart of the sea.
— Eric H. Borneman
I've figured out there's a difference between the meaning of the word 'real' and the meaning of the word 'true.
— Martine Leavitt
Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.
— Gautama Buddha
And then there was Johan Cruyff, who at 35 has added a whole new meaning to the word Anno Domini.
— Archie Macpherson
You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.
— Bruce McCulloch
The word amateur comes from the Latin root meaning "to love.
— Steven Pressfield
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
Regalverborgenheiten" word found in Gabriele Wohmann's short story "Die Feindin" meaning the comforting seclusion of being surrounded by book cases.
— Gabriele Wohmann
The word enchant comes from the Latin 'incantare', meaning to sing or chant magical words or sounds.
— Jonathan Goldman
Would I ever find forever love? Do I really want to, when forever was a word without meaning?
— Ellen Hopkins
Baby, if you let me take you out of here, I'll give the word pleasure a whole new meaning. - Drew Evans
— Emma Chase
My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.
— Clarice Lispector
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
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
Insomnia, from the Greek word meaning I can't fucking sleep!
— Billy Crystal
I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.
— Will Oldham
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
