Meanings Quotes

We're working our way through the terminology and getting on the same page language-wise and how we're going to call things. Some of the terminology is the same, but other times it's the same word but as different meanings. But it's not going to be a problem. - Don Breaux

We have seen so much good happen around us that we felt it was time to celebrate by choosing old, favorite songs and re-record them. All of the songs we chose have deep meanings for us behind them. - Albert Mazibuko

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

To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway. - George Saunders

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings. - Zhang Yimou

Times change and forms and their meanings alter. Thus new poems are necessary. Their forms must be discovered in the living language of their day, or old forms, embodying exploded concepts, will tyrannize over the imagination. - William Carlos Williams

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side. - Logan Pearsall Smith

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so. - Werner Erhard

This is a terrorist operation in all the meanings of the word... If we want to characterize such operations, we would say that they are obstacles to every effort. - Mahmoud Abbas