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Quotes About Meaning

Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart
~ Tennessee Williams
It isn't just that I don't believe in God, and naturally, hope there is no God. I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.
~ Thomas Nagel
People make songs so that somebody else will hear them and want to do them. I guess it's an indication that the songs aren't so ultra-personal that they can't possibly be interpreted by anyone else.
~ Tom Waits
I know some things--I know that I'm not alone, that I have friends, that I'm in love. I know that I don't want to die, and for me that's something--more than I could have said a few weeks ago.
~ Veronica Roth
I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things.
~ Victoria Pratt
I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.
~ Wallace Stegner
No more rhymes now I mean it!" "Anybody want a peanut?" "AAHH!
~ William Goldman
Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
~ William Shenstone
Dare to tell the smallest of stories if you want to generate large emotions.
~ William Zinsser
I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
~ Yoko Ono
Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.
~ Heinz Pagels
Rankings don't mean much to me because they can change after one fight. I just hope that I've at least gotten respect. A respect ranking is all I want.
~ Houston Alexander
I believe our lives are important when we learn something and love. I really want to capture the meaning of experience.
~ Iris Smyles
I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.
~ Isaac Marion
No word is capable of carrying the impulses one wants to send with it.
~ Isidore Isou
The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a result.
~ Jackson Pollock
What is the meaning of life?Whatever you want it to be.
~ James Frey
When I started out making music I thought it was about thrills and adding layers, but I realized I want to focus on saying the most with the least.
~ James Vincent McMorrow
Whatever my life looks like, I want it to be real and big and full. I want when, if I get hit by a car, I want to know that I have deep and real friendships, people to visit me in the hospital.
~ Jen Kirkman
I told the kids the house is going to be our Christmas. We didn't want them to think Christmas is just about gifts you're going to receive, but it's about Christ coming to Earth.
~ Jim Bob Duggar
What will I do with myself when I retire? When I quit my job, I do not want to quit living. Can I possibly be of use when retirement day comes, or will I just be taking up space?
~ John Anthony West
Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous,...It is though.
~ John Green
God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them.
~ John Stuart Mill
The bigger question, rather than what's true and what's false, is what do we want?
~ Josh Tickell