Quotes About Meaning

When I was young, I was a passionate reader of Sartre. I've read the American novelists, in particular the lost generation - Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dos Passos - especially Faulkner. Of the authors I read when I was young, he is one of the few who still means a lot to me.

If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.

If we want to change the nuance of a particular word we have to change that ourselves.

In everything I do, having it be important or try to express something or it having the ability to demystify something or draw attention to the nuance of something is always interesting to me.

When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song.

You need to understand the meaning of the dialogue to be able to convey it right. You need to know it to understand the nuances of the scene.

I believe life is a gift, and I want to live it productively. I am not into this numbers game.

I was born in 1970. I was hardly goose-stepping down Nuremberg.

I'm an originalist and a textualist, not a nut.

Actually, I just want to entertain people. Put that in my obituary, a final picture, all dark in the background.

Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs - in denoting the object, it also assigns to it some quality or characteristic.

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.

I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.

I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to create an aesthetic object.

My objective is not to play for money, as I just want to leave good memories. That is the most important thing!

Data and data sets are not objective; they are creations of human design. We give numbers their voice, draw inferences from them, and define their meaning through our interpretations.

I think the main objective is to move people, make people think in their heart. I personally am not interested in appealing to other musicians. To me, it's more inspiring to move someone who doesn't know anything about music but has a feel.

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

Collecting is more than just buying objects.

I don't fetishize objects.

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.

In so many ways, a lot of the drive I've had to do certain things has been because of this sense that I have both the opportunity and in some sense the obligation to ratify that my parents' life had purpose.

If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!

The 20-year-old version of me had all this energy, and wanted to be obnoxious with his art and wanted to communicate even though he didn't know what he wanted to communicate.