Quotes About Meaning

If you're really listening there are alot of hidden messages in my songs.

None of what I do is political. My messages are social and human messages. In many cases, they've been politicized but they are so much bigger than that.

There aren't any messages in my social protestations.

When you walk away from God, and you walk away from Christ, you're basically uprooting the very foundations of being. So I don't think there is an easy way to do that. Even for the guy who becomes an atheist out of it, it's messy. It ain't pretty.

I never think of a project as just being comedy or just being drama - even with 'Masters of Sex.' I like being sort of messy, like life is.

Science is all metaphor.

Language is memory and metaphor.

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

I come from an era where lyrics were full of imagery and metaphor, and that's all I know. I think people miss that.

People think if you have deciphered the genome of humans that you can change everything. But you cannot change everything, because you do not know what the genes mean, and you have no methods for changing them, and you can't do experiments with humans like you can with animals.

If you make money, you might not make meaning.

'Avatar' means so many things to so many different people. When I think of the creation of it, I think of me and Mike at the computer in a little apartment in Burbank.

The last problem Milan have to worry about is Rino Gattuso. I feel at home here and have great responsibility towards this club. Those aren't just words, I really mean it.

I'm nicknaming millennials 'the purpose generation' because we're making so many decisions.

I've read the 'Book of Revelation' a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded.

I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.

It's not just being called to the ministry that counts.

To understand this Christmas record, you have to understand our ministry.

Nuestra vida debe tener sentido, y ese sentido consiste en aliviar el sufrimiento ajeno y ayudar a los demás a permanecer en contacto con la alegría de la vida.

The most precious thing you can give to the people you love is your true presence.

To sit with only the intention of finding the meaning of a kung-an [koan] is not truly to sit in Zen; it is to spend one's time and one's life vainly. If one sits in meditation it is not in order to reflect on a kung-an, but in order to light the lamp of one's true being; the meaning of the kung-an will be revealed quite naturally in this light which becomes more and more brilliant.

The word "body" here simply means a collection of energy—a body of energy. Modern science tells us that everything we perceive is energy.