Quotes About Meaning

When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.

The nearness I mean comes after death perhaps. It is what we are struggling for and if I found it either I would be dead or I would have seen it for a second and life would be intolerable.

The reader may not see [these meanings], but they have their effect on him nonetheless. This is the way the modern novelist sinks, or hides his theme

The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in itself, he is going to take great pains to control every excess, everything that does not contribute to this central meaning and design. He cannot indulge in sentimentality, in propagandizing, or in pornography and create a work of art, for all these things are excesses. They call attention to themselves and distract from the work as a whole.

Je ne me battrais pas pour chaque mot tombé de ma bouche, mais il y a des tas de choses dont je ne parviens pas à parler et pour lesquelles je me battrais.

The Christ event derives its meaning from the fact that the three-personed God is directly acting as one throughout the entire sequence from incarnation to ascension to Last Judgment.

For me, I'm a family man. I absolutely love my family and they're the closest thing to my heart. And to me, that's my life.

The acknowledgement of my family members be it my daughter or my son means a lot to me.

I'm quite happy being famous for what I do but I'm not happy about being famous for the sake of being famous.

You want to look back on your career and see what you've achieved, not just have a fancy car and a big house.

I know people say plays are only an evening's entertainment. But you can make it mean a lot to the audience, even a farce or comedy.

I was fascinated by the shape of words even before I knew what they meant.

What I thought was fascinating about comparative religion was that these were the stories that humans have told themselves about where they come from, who they are and where they're going, and what it means to be alive on the planet.

The Bruins have become so much more to me than some boyhood fascination.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

I do believe in fate - I think you have to. It helps make sense of things.

It doesn't matter what you believe - and everyone believes something different - but I think there's something to be said for fate.

You have a kid and realize what's really important. It actually takes pressure off everything. Nothing will come before fatherhood for me, ever in my life.

Before anything else, my favorite thing as a fan of music was to make up my own story as to what it means.

I want to be a voice people listen to and feel good or sad or whatever.

I fell in love with film and its potential. The idea of putting one image next to another image and creating meaning blew my mind.

I feel like as a teenager making music, I had a lot of internalised misogyny, a need to be one of the boys, and a lot of self-hatred. As I discovered what feminism is and what it meant to me, it definitely took a hold of my life in a big way.

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.