Quotes About Meaning

The absence of the latter means nothing, though its presence may mean everything

What, indeed? It is art for art's sake, Watson.

These relics have a history then?' 'So much so that they are history.

You seem very anxious to lose your life." "To justify my life, Sir.

Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and hurried away.

They say words more empty than the wind, she said. 'Tis nothing, love. Nothing, and less than nothing. The wind is nothing yet powerful, he said.

I am old, but the word to me means familiar, comfortable. Accustomed after long and venerable use. Not dilapidated and useless.

For the first time, I comprehended that love, at least for me, had nothing to do with sex.

That alas is the way it goes; Something we must rectify. Paul, not Caro, would interpret the degree of meaning in their respective lots. That had been decided, as he sat speaking intimately of his life to the person most excluded from it - in order to readmit her to the intimacy, though not the life.

Use all the tools at your disposal. The language is infinitely flexible, and your use of it should be completely deliberate. Never forget the grotesque effect of the absolutely wrong words.

Now I want to say something about words artificially weighted; you can, and frequently must, make a word carry several meanings or messages in your story if you use the word right. This is a kind of shorthand.

Tell me something that only I will ever know, was perhaps what she wanted to ask him, or, What will you give me to remember you by? - or, even, Nothing of the least importance has ever belonged to me; can you help?

By changing the emphasis and angle on this little plot we can make it say almost anything we like. There is certainly no need to worry about whether any of this is true, or actually happened; it is as true as you make it. The important thing is that it be true in the story, and actually happen there.

our human language is full of indications of how much dogs mean to us.somebody who is not favored to win is anunderdog a book that's well worn is dog-eared and why is a bitch the most humiliating thing you can call a woman?

you have to soak the soles in vodka, otherwise the sugar won't take. "Now I get it," I said. "If there's no vodka, the sugar goes to waste. And if there's no sugar, there's no squeak. Like the Mishna says: If there's no food, there's no Torah.

I'm only human. A house without a woman is no house …' It did as much good as last winter's snow, of course.

But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be told.

Calmness of mind does not mean you should stop your activity. Real calmness should be found in activity itself. We say, It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.

I don't know how to choose work that illuminates what my life is about. I don't know what my life is about and don't examine it. My life will define itself as I live it. The movies will define themselves as I make them. As long as the theme is something I care about at the moment, it's enough for me to start work. Maybe work itself is what my life is about.

To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.

For each of us, time is a thief of glory. What gives meaning to our lives and deaths is love and hope, if we are willing to share and accept.

For each of us, time is a thief of flory. What give meaning to our lives and deaths is love and hope, if we are willing to share and accept

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

Dreams are never concerned with trivia.