Quotes About Meaning

I can't claim to 'understand' 'Byzantium,' if any dance work can be 'understood,' but whenever I see it, I sense that it's charged with meaning.

I never really understood who the Magi were as a child. What is a Magi? Not a word I would use, but a magpie I could understand.

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.

Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.

The decision before my office is not to decide if the loss of Breonna Taylor's life was a tragedy. The answer to that question is unequivocally yes.

I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

I loved the idea of Bowie as an artist, with his Burroughsian cut-up technique, creating these undecipherable, abstract songs, where we all projected our own meanings onto his jarring word choices and unexpected chord changes.

In retrospect, the populist panic may have been overblown. Regarding Brexit, for example, the shock exaggerated its meaning. Because it was so unexpected, it became a sensation.

The process of writing a story isn't about fair. It's about getting to the heart of your story, getting to the truth of it. It transcends ideals of fair and unfair, right and wrong.

It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss.

How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives?

And, more important, none of Paul's music feels unfamiliar to me.

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

Life is about unforgettable and transcendent moments, isn't it? The point of music is to get the moment.

Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully.

That's mostly what the Internet is, just passing the time. But unfortunately you are dealing with words that can have meaning.

Answer the big question of eternity, and the little questions of life fall into perspective.

There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.

When I asked you if you wanted to, I was not testing your courage. I was testing your wisdom.

Wisdom isn't about knowing; it's an understanding that meaning is inexhaustible.

People should not feel intimidated by received wisdom. You have to discover it yourself. If I tell you that Armstrong is great, it's meaningless; you have to hear it.

O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own story is a life worthy to be read

Acknowledge what i mean, and not what say

Things go wrong for a purpose. Just know the purpose, and just understand how to distinctively use the purpose for a great purpose!