Quotes About Meaning

She had something more than material value ~ she had a soul, no money could buy.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion

It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean.

The only rich women who ever interested me, the ones who were ever my friends, were adventuresses---people who were total self-creations.

A woman's belly is the garden of life. Her mind is the gateway to meaning. Her heart is the source of love. And her eyes are the light by which the whole world sees beauty.

The most beautiful thing is that despite the shallow life we sometimes succumb to - the soul has no timeline and it knows what it wants and will yearn within until it seeks the journey

Art should be expressed without objectification.It's more than just attraction. Creative expression is not "art for art's sake" but art that breathes true meaning.

The greatest treasures are not found in museums, but in our hearts.

That's what a poem is. Words which have a hidden meaning. A poem is like a secret.

As it gets closer and more probable, being a star is really losing its meaning.

I'm not a rock star writing poetry. I don't feel like a rock star and I don't know what one is, actually. I'm a goalie/poet or a hotel guest/poet or a father/poet.

India means everything to me. It is my homeland. India is my country. It is here that I have gotten love and affection as a film star from millions and millions of my fans over the last five decades.

I want to change the color of Starbucks from green to red. Whose job was it to say, 'This is going to be green?' I want that to be my job.

Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee.

The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.

How can an adjective in front of a noun not describe the noun? There are dwarf stars, but they're still considered stars.

I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she found beyond expression.

I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.

When I hear a great country song, I get chills and I want to cry. You feel something. And just sometimes that magic and the stars line up somehow or another, and it creates something that's really, really, really special.

I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'

I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason.

If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.

She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some little seed crystal of interest, a sentence or an image or an idea, and as much as possible divest myself of any deep ideas about it. And then by this process of revision, mysteriously it starts to accrete meanings as you go.