Quotes About Meaning

If my words don't flow out of a heart that rests in God's control, sovereignty, then they come out of the heart that seeks control so I can get what I want.

I dream about my teeth, losing a tooth, which I think means that you want control back.

What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts.

When I believe in nothing, I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing.

Three words for those who want to put the Christ back in Christmas: Jingle Bell Rock.

No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting.

Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

You're talking about meaning. I want to talk about the picture.

The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do reflect the values you want, because we don't know what's going to matter in the future

But I knew that someday I was going to die. And just before I died two things would happen; Number 1: I would regret my entire life. Number 2: I would want to live my life over again.

Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.

A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life.

You are the reason. If you want, you are the answer in the end.

I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

The things people really want are love, connection, and purpose.

Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.

I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can.

I don't really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them

God is the most important thing in our lives. I suppose that's true of everybody's lives, whether or not they want to believe it.

Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.

To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it means.

What people want is the extra, the emotional bonus they get when they buy something they love.

Nothing's real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn't really mean anything.