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Quotes About Meaning

Gavin, Logan, Calix. Was there a sale on trendy names when they were born, or something?
~ Keri Lake, Soul Avenged
I sort of kind of said something a little like that but maybe not clearly enough to sound like that... But it's what I meant.
~ Mary Eva Swatek
It's a very remarkable story.""Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.
~ James Hilton, Random Harvest
Don't be an artist. Be somebody's artist.
~ zev rector
Stop your idiocy, Sandra, please. For once in your death.
~ Lauren Oliver, Rooms
It is better to make an irrational noise in a bush than in a desert.
~ Duop Chak Wuol
This existenitalist stuff sure is crap
~ Daniel Younger, Delirious
See what I mean? You gotta be crazy. Ain't no time to be sane.
~ Robin McLaurin Williams
if you can't make a joke at a time like this, what's the point of living?
~ Chloe Neill, Midnight Marked
All he had was nothing, but that was something, and now it had been taken away.
~ Terry Pratchett
If everyone was cognisant of their purpose on earth, we would only need weapons for hunting and nothing else.
~ Gugu Mona
Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.
~ Julia Alvarez
For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.
~ C. S. Lewis
Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.
~ Sigmund Freud
Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .
~ Charles Sanders Peirce
The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.
~ Virginia Postrel
This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.
~ Tom Hanks
we compose our life in stories we tell ourselves
~ John Geddes
He gave me a copy of The Declaration of Independence, then he got a tattoo that says Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death. I think my boyfriend wants his freedom.
~ Randy Glasbergen
Everything matters. Nothing's important.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
There are three great truths, 1st, That there is a God; 2nd, That He has spoken to us in the Bible; 3rd, That He means what He says.
~ Hudson Taylor
You are not a powerless speck of dust drifting around in the wind...we are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes-unique, and born for a specific reason and purpose.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross