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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

My glitchy adolescent brain was desperate for causalities, for conspiracies that drenched every word, every gesture, with meaning. — Emma Cline

It's so fun to be in love or so I've heard, the meaning has no feeling even though I understand the word — Eyedea

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 sayings
Made 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

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

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

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

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

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

I think the word 'pleasure' is unknown to you. More precisely, its practical meaning. — Olga Goa

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.' — Max Lucado

I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now. — Frederick Salomon Perls

The Greek meaning of the word "blessed" is "supreme happiness." [see Matthew 5:3-5] — Eric Ludy

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

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

Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word "servant". — Davis Bunn

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

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word. — Herbert Read

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

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

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 word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. — Carl Jung

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

Regalverborgenheiten" word found in Gabriele Wohmann's short story "Die Feindin" meaning the comforting seclusion of being surrounded by book cases. — Gabriele Wohmann

The original ancient Greek meaning of the word planet was simply wanderer, — Mike Brown

The word enchant comes from the Latin 'incantare', meaning to sing or chant magical words or sounds. — Jonathan Goldman

Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter. — Andy Rooney

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

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

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

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

The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds — Nelson Mandela

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

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