Quotes About Meaning

I show elements of the set in my pictures because it's not real. When I see movies, I often love the 'making of' more than the movie itself. It's not so final. When you have a woman just standing there, it doesn't mean much.

An artistic standpoint - I've watched a lot of ballet and source some inspiration from how they move, connect with each other, and find meaning in their movement.

My real name is Keneti James Fitzgerald, but K.J. stands for Keneti James, which is a Samoan name.

Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride.

We have to make a living, sure, but it's about the legacy of Lynyrd Skynyrd and what it stands for, what the fans are all about.

Money is rarely just money. Sometimes it stands in for love or self-esteem or freedom or a sense of control over your destiny (especially if you lacked these things in childhood).

To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.

If you don't know what your family stands for and what your life situation is, you're in trouble.

It is weird, the relationship between people and food. It's always deeper than you think. It always stands for something else.

Right away I'm associated with what Donald Trump stands for and all that because I introduced him. I never signed up for that, I never wanted that. That doesn't mean I support 100 percent of the things he says.

I think it's important for every artist to have that ballad that stands the test of time.

Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means.

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.

You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.

No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.

I don't know whether the world is full of smart men bluffing or imbeciles who mean it.