Quotes About Meaning

Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. I'd say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there!

Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck.

Working with existing pictures, like I do, you constantly think about the flood of images we are subjected to and you want to figure out how you can make sense of it.

At this age - I'm 44 - I think life's too short. I want it to mean something to me, if I'm going to spend that much time doing it.

We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.

In the end, money should serve something greater than just money. It should serve you, your family, the people you want to touch.

Do I really believe that? I make a mark, a few strokes, I argue with myself, not do I like or not, but is it true or not? Is that what I mean, is that what I want?

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.

Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.

Before I die, I want to fight for life.

I don't have a problem with dying but I have a problem with what I'm going to die for. I don't want to die for no reason at all. If I'm going to die for something, I want it to be worthwhile.

At the end of your life, you are going to want to know that you made some kind of difference.

My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.

When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.

A day will come when the nationalists will find themselves the only defenders of Islam. They will have to give a special meaning to it if they want the Arab nation to have a good reason for survival.

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

By itself, 1 Corinthians 15 just wouldn't mean much. He wants the appearances of 1 Corinthians 15:3-11 to be read as if they had in parentheses after them 'See Luke 24; Matthew 28; John 21.'

Communication always has a purpose. Before speaking, the first law is: you must know why you are talking. You must know what you are communicating for. What do you want?