Quotes About Meaning

I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.

I named my son after Randy Rhoads - Rhoads Morello.

A house full of new furniture doesn't mean a whole lot.

Without faith, life is futile.

If I gain support, the support doesn't seem to mean anything. It's not like anyone really cares about me.

Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.

I think we have to go through a lot of rituals in order to fill the gap of meaning in our lives.

I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.

Brands mean different things for different generations.

I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.

We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.

What I'm interested in is the conversations going on about the Anthropocene and what it means to view ourselves as a part of Earth's geological history.

You need a lot of words to say anything in German.

You know, I might get married at 50 or 60, when it actually means something to say 'for the rest of my life.'

When you're getting older, you think about what you have to offer, and what's the point of your life.

I think architecture has to be a gift.

Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.

Persimmons are pretty present in a lot of Asian cultures, as gifts that you give to people.

When I was thinking of giving up, I was very dissatisfied with the idea that the films that I've made are the ones my daughter might see in the future and would represent what was very personal to me.

So far, I don't know what it means to be the champion. I'm just glad I have the belt.

I like Quintorris. It means 'Gladiator.'

Whatever it means for us to exist, we do so as creatures created, as the universe has been created, to glorify God.

Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?'