Quotes About Meaning

Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site.

A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.

In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced.

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.

Lyrics are very important to me. I like speaking to women and saying what I mean.

I've come to learn that music speaks for itself.

In my opinion, that's one of the hardest things to do in songwriting: crafting a song that speaks to you but, at its core, is a simple concept.

American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

I guess we're all kinda searching for a connection with something that's relevant to our past and speaks to who we are, and maybe helps us make a connection to what we are, and where we come from.

My mother's music speaks to me as an oracle.

I think putting your fingerprints on life in general speaks more value than this game of basketball can speak.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

In orbit, you're keyed up and aware of everything going on, every little noise, anything that may have special meaning because of where you are.

The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it.

I took up 'Waqt' and 'Gandhi My Father' because they were very too special to be missed.

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

You can't change what Memphis means to me, what Memphis has meant to me. It's a special place for me. There's no doubt.

Our lives are intertwined. We have individual lives and this beautiful band that we started when we were so young. It holds such a special place.

It's just a coincidence that I've scored two headers. I'm not a specialist scoring headed goals.

I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.

Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.