Quotes About Meaning

Every picture tells a story.

"Shine, Shine, save poor me!I'll give you all the pussy a Shine can see."Shine says, "Now pussy's good, but pussy don't last—Shine's going to save his own black ass."And Shine swam on.

A picture, it is said, is worth a thousand words, but cannot a few well-spoken words convey as many pictures?

A rose can say "I love you", orchids can enthrall, but a weed bouquet in a chubby fist, yes, that says it all.

It is so soon that I am done for,I wonder what I was begun for.

So is a word better than a gift.

The present life is naught but a diversion and a sport; surely the Last Abode is Life, did they but know.

And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken.

Words have meaning and names have power.

A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.

I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.

Not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

If the author had said "Let us put on appropriate galoshes," there could, of course, have been no poem.

Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words.

The only difference between graffiti and philosophy is the word "fuck."

Let me ask you something, what is not art?

Man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

We're the middle children of history.... no purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.

For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?

When we lose God, it is not God who is lost.

You've gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less and less.

Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns.

Docs? Oh, you mean the stuff you wipe up coffee with?