Quotes About Meaning

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all our live trying to be less lonesome.

A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.

They was havin' the time a their life, an' same time you wouldn' give a gopher for their chance.'' Casy said, "Seems like that's the way. Fella havin' fun, he don't give a damn; but a fella mean an' lonely an' old an' disappointed—he's scared of dyin'!

These were words to clothe a naked thing, and the thing is ridiculous in clothes.

No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us. What a great burden of guilt men have!

Then it occured to me that the elicate shades of feeling, of reaction, are the result of communication, and without such communication they tend to disappear. A man with nothing to say has no words.

Hakaret eÅŸiÄŸinin zeka ve güvenle doÄŸrudan iliÅŸkili olduÄŸunu söylemiÅŸti. ''Orospu çocuÄŸu'' sözü ancak anas?ndan pek emin olmayan bir adam için hakaret say?l?r ama insan Albert Einstein'a nas?l hakaret edebilir ki, demiÅŸti.

Duygularla iliÅŸkili deÄŸilse, sözcükler anlams?zd?r. Ä°nsan bir düÅŸüncenin sonucuna göre mi harekete geçeri yoksa duygu eylemi harekete geçirir de bazen düÅŸünce mi onu uygulamaya döker?

Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all

Look, Samuel, I mean to make a garden of my land. Remember my name is Adam. So far I've had no Eden, let alone been driven out.

This here ol' man jus' lived a life an' just died out of it. I don' know whether he was good or bad, but that don't matter much. He was alive, an' that's what matters.

The names of places carry a charge of the people who named them.

Her face looked for the answer that is always concealed in language.

Homicide thats a big word means i killed a guy. seven years. im sprung in four for keep'n my nose clean. (18) the hich hiker is saying this to the truck driver and i think it puts alot of meanning to the book because the truck driver just realized that he could have just died. it adds suspense to the story and makes it kinda scary.

If you want to give me a present-give me a good life. That would be something I could value.

This is the greatest mystery of the human mind—the inductive leap. Everything falls into place, irrelevancies relate, dissonance becomes harmony, and nonsense wears a crown of meaning. But the clarifying leap springs from the rich soil of confusion, and the leaper is not unfamiliar with pain.

A man who writes a story is forced to put into it the best of his knowledge and the best of his feeling. The discipline of the written word punishes stupidity and dishonesty. A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you.

I want to take everything I've seen and thought and learned and reduce them and relate them and refine them until I have something of meaning, something of use. And I can't seem to do it.

Why, you mouse—you nasty cur. With goodness all around you—don't you dare suggest a thing like that! Why is your sorrow more refined than my sorrow?

Lo valioso siempre está oculto en la mente solitaria de un hombre

Eventlessness has no post to drape duration on.

Well, tell me. You see, there's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be. What

What is this? He has a sensation of touching glass. He doesn't know if they are talking about nothing or making code for the deepest meanings.

Just middle-aged. Ideas used to grab me too. It's not that you get better ideas, the old ones just get tired. After a while you see that even dollars and cents are just an idea. Finally the only thing that masters is putting some turds in the toilet bowl once a day. They stay real, somehow. Somebody came up to me and said, 'I'm God,' I'd say, 'Show me your badge.