Quotes About Meaning

If something is being written about a lot, there's a conversation there; there's a dialogue there. There's probably a reason for it that it resonates deeply in some way.

Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.

The character of our language defines us, and dictionaries say as much about us as about the way we speak.

Take away our things, and something in us dies.

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

You're really looking for the truth of what the piece is about. And that's going to be different for different people.

I think there's a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.

I hope readers will think that 'The Thing About Life' is beautifully patterned, a tapestry.

You have a generation that is saying we are tapping out of religion in many ways. But what they are not saying is that we are tapping out of a serious search for meaning in life.

The future of the Republican Party should be tapping into... the feeling of belonging and meaning and pride that comes with being part of this whole 'America First' movement.

I think, given who the IBM target company is, I feel our purpose is to be essential to our clients.

Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.

Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.

Changes in our aesthetic tastes have no value or meaning in and of themselves; what has value and meaning is the idea of change itself. Or, better stated: not change in and of itself, but change as an agent or inspiration of modern creations.

Writers begin changing the instant they append 'The End' to a novel. Readers begin changing the moment they encounter that same phrase. And even the novels themselves, through the strange transmutations of time and shifting tastes and mores, exhibit changes as we look backward upon them, acquiring retroactive meanings and tonalities.

I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.

I look at other people's tats for probably the idea, or like, where to put it or something. But, at the end of the day, all my tats gotta mean something back to me. The moment you get something that don't mean something to you, you're gonna regret that tattoo.

People tattoo for different reasons. I use a tattoo as a marker of time, to be reminded of a time in my life. It is something special and personal.

Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.

Having the tattoo itself is not really for the end result for me. I like having them done.

I have one. I may get another during the off-season, I might get my son's name but I'm not sure yet. The one I have is my Hebrew name, which I share with my grandfather, and it's not the best tattoo.

I just don't want to get a tattoo just to have a tattoo.

I've always been drawn to the four-leaf clover. It's deeply significant to my sister and me, so much so that we both have had it tattooed on the inside of our wrists.

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.