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Quotes About Meaning

I like whatever I'm doing to have depth.
~ Jermaine Fowler
I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives.
~ Randy Harrison
I am looking for a character that connects to me on some level. It has to be about something, it has to have depth to it and it has to be about something. The story of the character and their relationship with the people and places around them appeal to me and are what I look for.
~ Richard Hatch
Sometimes if something is entertaining and amusing, people tend to think that it doesn't have the depth of something that's dramatic. I don't think that's true.
~ T. C. Boyle
I'm interested in the essence of things. If you pare things down, what's left? It's like I'm trying to describe the soul to an alien.
~ Shea Hembrey
People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books that lend themselves to that sort of description. My books are more a kind of breaking-down.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I think I do deserve more than 11 carries. I think I really do.
~ Ezekiel Elliott
I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.
~ Neri Oxman
I have never designed a language for its own sake.
~ Niklaus Wirth
Designer' is meant to mean whatever it means.
~ Aldous Harding
Usually, as designers, you try to create meaning.
~ Jake Barton
I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, 'I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior's power to bless others.'
~ Russell M. Nelson
I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.
~ Olympia Dukakis
They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
~ Victoria Jackson
Is that bad? Detachment in the sense that I can't be going to every party, showing my face, talking to the press and telling them what I am wearing to the bathroom or where I eat. I would rather see a purpose to that.
~ Priyanshu Chatterjee
Humans can really reveal themselves through what they choose to see as the most important or meaningful detail in an image.
~ Edward Burtynsky
Details matter. They create depth, and depth creates authenticity.
~ Neil Blumenthal
I like those kinds of songs that have details that you remember and that have stories that mean something and that open up into different levels philosophically. I like those kinds of movies, and I like those kinds of books.
~ Jason Isbell
With 'Detroit,' we realized that we wanted to create an experience that could be meaningful.
~ David Cage
I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
~ Samuel Barnett
Heart means something, especially in Gotham City, where the only thing worse than a scrub is someone devoid of that thumping sound inside the chest.
~ Stephen A. Smith
I guess I've gotten older and more sentimental, and I've realized that the love song is just the modern equivalent of a devotional.
~ Caroline Polachek
I want to say that since my dad has been diagnosed, I really feel like I understand the meaning of life, and it is not how you die: it is how you live.
~ Meghan McCain
The biblical story is in dialogue with the other stories of its time. And if the Bible can be in dialogue with other cultures, why can't the people who are descendants of the Bible be in dialogue with other cultures?
~ Bruce Feiler