Quotes About Meaning

Olha como chora, alguma coisa nele extravasou. Pensei muitas vezes nesta frase. Depois, escrevi-a numa folha em branco. Voltei a riscar, voltei a escrever. Quando a folha encheu, rasguei-a do caderno. A isto chama-se memória.

Ik weet niet hoe woorden dat tot stand brengen, dat de zin opglinstert en veel meer zegt dan de inhoud van zijn woorden.

The lingering laughter fled from his eyes as he realized that he'd given himself away. "Where's Fiddle now?" "Safe and cared for. Safer than you'll be if you don't answer my questions." Ping. He managed not to laugh, but it looked like a hard fight. "Dung," Makenna muttered. the knight's expression changed to startled disapproval. A prig, as he? Maybe she could use that. "I said you should let me handle this," Cogswhallop told her. "I'd have meant it.

Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time.

A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.

The prose," Robespierre said. "It's so clean, no conceits, no show, no wit. He means every word. Formerly, you see, he meant every other word. That was his style.

He makes a gesture, designed to impersonate frankness.

If life is a chain of gold, sometimes God hangs a charm on it.

I felt," he said, "irritated. It seemed a waste, I suppose. To come so far. To cross the sea. To die for . . ." He shrugs. "God knows why.

What for do we nail down the dead?

I do no damage. This is damage, this." He picked up a paper from Camille's desk. "I can't read your writing, but I take it the general tenor is that Brissot should go and hang himself.

There are codes so subtle that they change their whole meaning in half a line, or in a syllable, or in a pause, a caesura.

What does St. Paul mean when he says Jesus was made a little lower than the angels?

If Mary's blood is Spanish, at least it is royal. And at least she can walk straight and has control of her bowels.

I listened to the murmurs within his silence. Construction can be put on silence.

Then the patriots will have de facto control of the city.' Gabrielle: 'What does de facto mean?' 'It means they'll do it now and make it legal later,' Lucile

With the words arrives the truth of them.

There are codes so subtle that they change their whole meaning in half a line, or in a syllable, or in a pause. . .

The house had a name. The Banana House. It was carved onto a piece of sandstone above the front door. It made no sense to anyone.

I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.

MURRY: Why do we even celebrate the New Year? It's just this arbitrary quirk of how we measure time in years, right? Midnight tonight is the very same transition from day to day that we do every 24 hours. But this thing in my hands, it feels real in a way the numbered calendar box never does. Why? What makes midnight tonight any different?

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan—at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph, combines the characters sha, meaning to reflect or copy, and shin, meaning truth, hence the photographer seems to entertain grand delusions of portraying truth.