Quotes About Meaning

Old friends call me Sea Salt, because my last name is Salter. Or Cocoa, cause my real first name is Courtney.

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what people make of it.

Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly.

The whole thing means such a great deal for me, and hopefully one day it will be there. But my friends and my family mean a little more. I would rather be helping them, even if it hurts that.

I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw us to literature is that it gives us this very attractive illusion that there is meaning in the world - things connect.

Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also revealing character and history, etc.

Everyone should have cancer one time - then you'd know that other things aren't important. The guy that gives you the finger at the stoplight don't mean nothing anymore. You come home and something's cold, or you didn't get something in the mail. Big deal. You want to get up every day and see your family and your friends.

The Elizabethan mind wanted and demanded that one word could mean 50 things. What Shakespeare offers us is not ambiguity; it's choices.

I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

If the script is boring when I read it, I am sure it would be boring onscreen, too.

If you can find interesting ways to be clear, you're really onto something.

I feel like Black Thought is a name that has so much meaning and depth, not only to me but to my fans, that it's something that I wanted to hold onto a little bit tighter.

I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.

I love to operate in a world that values things outside of beauty. It's just more what I feel comfortable doing.

I don't say MMA fans are racist at all. What I said is that fans are opinionated, especially because we're the only professional sport to give them that access.

I write 200 columns a year, you know. That means I have to have 200 opinions a year. Sometimes, I don't give a damn one way or the other, but that's my job, so I got to take a side.

The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.

The great things of life are what they seem to be, and for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, are often difficult to interpret. But the little things of life are symbols. We receive our bitter lessons most easily through them.

If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

To become a work of art is the object of living.

Vivere è la cosa più rara nel mondo. Molta gente esiste: ecco tutto.

And the wild regrets and the bloody seats None knew so well as I For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one, must die.

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.