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Quotes About Meaning

We went sailing one time, and he wore a Speedo, and any smart woman should know that means bisexual at least.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.
~ Cyril Connolly
What good is all the cash if it doesn't buy time and what good is bein famous if I'm never on your mind?
~ Drake
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
~ Gertrude Stein
There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.
~ Hazel Scott
Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.
~ J. D. Salinger
What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our time, but have been lived, used by what we do?
~ Jacob Needleman
I think that we live in a moment in time where people have a lot of information about a lot of people kind of instantly, but it's all sort of surface information and it doesn't really mean anything.
~ Jon Hamm
I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.
~ Katherine Paterson
The real meaning of a poem is to stop time.
~ Ralph Fletcher
The only reason to build a website is to change someone. If you can't tell me the change and you can't tell me the someone, then you're wasting your time.
~ Seth Godin
I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.
~ Yusef Komunyakaa
I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.
~ Zack Snyder
This will be a good time for poetry, you know, when things get darker and stranger and your very speech is being questioned and the sense of trusting that human thing.
~ Anne Waldman
What reason has one for existing other than to be involved with what is actually being created in your particular time?
~ Antony Pay
True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone.
~ Claudio Magris
Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.
~ David Levithan
How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.
~ Denis Waitley
Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?
~ Morrie Schwartz
He who makes time precious lives forever.
~ Peter Megargee Brown
Never generally means "at no point in time." The term comes from the words 'no' and 'ever', meaning that something is not ever going to happen. Sourced
~ Robert Burns
And Nedley started saying,'Shut Up!Quit that! And i knew it really meant something to him. So I asked for his help,Mark said. Don't tell the story like that, Nedley laughed. What he said was 'Quit pretendin you're a bad guy I need your help, and I need it now!
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
And this is why people believe in God, isn't it? Jonah wondered. Because we can tell there's something bigger out there that we're part of. Because we can tell that there's something more to all of us, and more to all of our lives.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
Hope doesn't mean anything... Action's the only thing that counts.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix