Quotes About Meaning

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.

Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

In good writing, words become one with things.

Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.

Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.

But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make him out to be.

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.I'm not dismissing it.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.

Songwriting is like going to church. I'm connecting to something, and it's rewarding in really important ways. I don't need to share it with anyone to feel good about it.

Good advice is like a proverb: the meaning depends on the interpretation.

The good news is hopeful doesn't mean dumb. The bad news is cynical doesn't mean smart.

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

There is nothing wrong with good schmaltz, nothing wrong with good heart... The critics think I'm kind of corny. Well, I am corny. As long as people respond to it, I'm okay.

Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn't come at the push of a button.