Quotes About Meaning

People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.

You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.

The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.

I don't really know what I'm ever looking for, it's kind of like whatever happens to resonate at the time with me.

When I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it.

What will you do with the time you have left?

I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.

What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality.

It was a nephilim." "A nephi-what?" asked Hugh, startled. "Isn't that a character on Sesame Street?" Peter spoke up for the first time.

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.

I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Christmas is a glorious time of the year, simple in origin, deep in meaning, beautiful in tradition and custom, rich in memories, and charitable in spirit.

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.

Time is not important, but art is.

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.

I've always worked to find really deep meaning of song and also at the same time having it covered in sugar, so it can be taken two or three different ways.

Without time for loss you don't have time for soul.

If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion.

Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else.

A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time.