Quotes About Meaning

If we say the purpose of life is our children, that's neither a purpose nor a meaning. But I'm sure I will be as besotted as everybody else when I have them.

I think every time I can find a story that touches that human nerve, and even sometimes makes you cry, I think that I've found something that I'll like very much.

Mark Zuckerberg is a genius. Not in the Asperger's, autistic way depicted in the very fictional movie 'The Social' Network, the cognitive genius of exceptional ability. That's a modern definition that reduces the original meaning.

'Never forget' is correct. But the place to remember is in our hearts, not in lavish ceremonies.

Every new car, you open the door, and you look at all those internal mellifluous swoopy bits, and they have no meaning.

I am a big fan of work in any medium that can take on death - being dead, being a soul - in a new way.

When you live in New York City, you run up a long list of things you've been meaning to do.

Chicago is like a New York City. It's one of the those older cities. It really means something to fight there.

I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.

Teaching has made me realize that a lot of my fast playing is the musical equivalent of, 'Umm... umm... uhh...' - it's like when you're trying to think of the next thing to say that actually has meaning, you fill space. 'Umm' has about the same meaning as my fast playing.

The nice thing about my job is that it allows me to look deeper into issues and then tell stories with that information.

When people you don't know say nice things about you, if you allow yourself, even subconsciously, to attach a shred of meaning to it, when the opposite happens, when people you don't know say bad things about you, you can't attach that same meaning.

Most people would say the meaning of life is to make the world a little more beautiful, or nicer, or more interesting. But how? These days, our main answer to that is: through work.

When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't been written yet.

My real name is Nils and Booboo is a childhood nickname. It's not two words or two capital B's, it's B-o-o-b-o-o.

My mom knew we were going to call me Kiki by birth. I think she had the nickname before she had my name, and she then found the name that would allow that.

My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'

With a name like Cush Jumbo, you never get forgotten. The 'Jumbo' is from my father, who is Nigerian, and 'Cush' was a king in ancient Egypt. It's a name that took a few years to grow into, but now I feel it was meant to be. It's absolutely who I am, and I love it.

My whole career will be about sad things. Happy songs about nightclubs and shots? That's not me.

I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

People call me left of centre, they don't even know why left is called left and why right is called right. They have no clue. These are just you know jargons - created and marketed.

I've got absolutely no desire or intention of damaging England.

I have no doubt, if people are really seeking the big questions, it will lead them to the Lord.