Quotes About Meaning

soy un mortal de tan poca consecuencia para el mundo que lo que yo haga no tiene mucha importancia;

These days any planned thing looked good to me. What heaven to have your work cut out for you, to be part of the Big Picture -- a picture you did not have to paint yourself.

Age is artificial. It's soulless. It doesn't matter one bit.

Who cares what the color means? How do you know what he meant to say? I mean, did he leave another book called Symbolism in My Books? If he didn't, then you could just be making all of this up. Does anyone really think this guy sat down and stuck all kinds of hidden meanings into his story? It's just a story.... But I think you are making all of this symbolism stuff up. I don't believe any of it.

He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

Apologies mean nothing if you don't mean it.

It was the most eloquent silence I ever heard.

Me: All right, but you said we had to put emotion into our art. I don't know what that means. I don't know what I'm supposed to feel.

Mr. Freeman taps his chin. He looks way too serious to be an art teacher. He's making me nervous. Mr. Freeman: This has meaning. Pain. The bell rings. I leave before he can say more.

It's all about SYMBOLISM, says Hairwoman. Every word chosen by Nathaniel, every comma, every paragraph break - these were all done on purpose. To get a decent grade in her class, we have to figure out what he was really trying to say. Why couldn't he just say what he meant? Would they pin scarlet letters on his chest? B for blunt, S for straightforward?

He says a million things without saying a word I have never head a more eloquent silence -Melinda

The word ghost sounds like memory. The word therapy means exorcism

This is not a midlife crisis car," I corrected him. "This is a midlife memory car!

And I gather they did." "What is it Mehitabel always says? In archy and mehitabel? 'There's life in the old dame yet.' Ã¢â'¬Â "And she said that?" "What she said, word for word, was 'So I took him into the bedroom and fucked his brains out.

In June of 1955 I graduated from Bennett High School in Buffalo, New York. The school was named after one Lewis J. Bennett, and you now know as much about the man as I ever did. Having one's name on something enduring—a school, a bridge, a building—is thought to provide immortality of a sort, but if that's immortality, well, I'm with

She said it casually, but it was like a casual stroke with a shiv. (p.140)

What does it all

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

This world represents the promise of a unique happiness which we are not well-enough equipped to grasp.

The telephone is a modern symbol for communications which never take place

Our common actions in reality are simply the sackcloth covering which hides the cloth-of-gold—the meaning of the pattern.

Of course, one must always remember that truth itself is always halved in utterance.

I hunt everywhere for a life worth living. Perhaps if I could die or go mad it would provide a focus for all the feelings I have which find no proper outlet.

It would have been sad for me to spend my life just trying to superimpose stuff on people rather than trying to encourage them to look within themselves for what's of value.