Quotes About Meaning

The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.

I read James Joyce's short story 'The Dead,' and I love that movie for many reasons. It was the last film I made with my father, and it's emotional for me as well as a movie I'm proud of.

If you word-spot James Joyce, you'll miss the entire experience.

The finite play for life is serious; the infinite play of life is joyous.

One of the joys of language is its constant evolution, and a lexicographer's job is both to track new words and to reassess those from the past.

I hope that they are finding satisfaction. I'm in no way making a judgment. I know it doesn't make me happy.

I've learned that the Court will continue to change the meaning of the Constitution. Although all of the Justices have expressed the importance of judicial restraint, the Court inevitably makes new law every time it interprets the Constitution.

I intend to live life, not just exist.

As long as each song makes somebody feel something, I think that's the point of it all. I don't want it to just be background music, you know?

It's very important for people to know what gives them meaning. But it's hard for people to figure out if you're not connecting with yourself and taking the time to just be introspective and daydream.

What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.

More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of it, it would just be something different. Lyrically, I am usually fairly confused until something is finished, and then it makes perfect sense to me.

What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning.

I think some of my colleagues' spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

There's no need to make any film. The word 'need' is pretty strong. But if there's a purpose behind making the film, there can be a justification for it.

It is okay to put as much money as you want in a story, as long as it is justified.

Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.

My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.

I can pretty much justify anything as work if I'm reading the news or whatever.

I always need a reason to do something on stage, for me. I am not judging anyone: there is not a good way; there is not a bad way. You just have to justify everything.

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.

I don't want a headline saying 'Kennedy suggests this or implies that.'

Everyone knows what Kenny Dalglish means to Liverpool: he is probably the badge on the shirt.