Words And Their Meanings Quotes

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

(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

Words take on many different meanings. — Erin McKean

A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings. — Dejan Stojanovic

Silence is a great companion when words are devoid of meanings. — Nema Al-Araby

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

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

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings. — Henry David Thoreau

I love the idea that a name might change based on who you are at a given moment in time.
Lia — Jodi Picoult

Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them. — Blaise Pascal

Where will the meanings be
when the words are forgotten
will I see again
where you are — W.S. Merwin

This was not the first time she had squeezed meanings from his words that he never knew were in them. — Robert Jordan

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

Boris Pasternak said that poetry makes itself from the relationship between the sounds and the meanings of words. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us. — S.I. Hayakawa

It's really funny, because if you make up words, then people project their own meanings onto it, which I find interesting. — Aphex Twin

You never feel more aware of what it means to be alive than when you're falling in love. Or dying. — Kate Bassett

One writes to find words' meanings. — Joy Williams

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

The Constitution is a 200-year-old parchment, simply because we digitize the words should not suggest their meanings change. — Ed Markey

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

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

It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words. — Wilson Follett

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity. — Evelyn Waugh