Quotes About Meaning

No holiday, no job, no amount of money, not even my own security can mean more to me than my love for God.

Yes, for me Hanukkah is very sad. But the life force that's in me makes it a wonderful holiday, too.

I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.

If that had been my only purpose in life - to call home runs and touchdowns - I'd lead a pretty shallow life.

My dad plays guitar in the church band, so it's like music as a service. He plays at old-people homes, so that's like music as a gift.

Homes are filled with who you are, as opposed to things.

I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.

If you try and kind of focus on hope, but you know what it's like to be in the dark, then hope is more meaningful.

I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.

The beauty of existence is that we get past the superficialities and material world and hopefully move into - lord - hopefully a bit of depth.

I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.

I don't think 'Shotgon Stories' or 'Take Shelter' have hopeless endings. I think there's hope in both those films, no matter how hard you have to search for it. It's there.

I'm not a fan of fiction that's totally hopeless.

I think that everybody needs to find meaning in life. I was hoping to do something that serves the needs of society.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is.

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

The horror films that I've made have been satirical in one way or another or political, and I really think that's the purpose of horror. I don't see that happening very often.

A movie that's about other horror movies isn't interesting. A movie about who we are, is.

Our logo for Lanvin is a mother and a daughter. I've always said, 'It's not a lion, and it's not a horse. It's a mother and a daughter.' I find the logo very emotional.

Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means.

What does a house want to be?

I think a lot of the time, we don't give our family connections the kind of credit they deserve, like how important they are to us and how much they mean to us. I think family makes all the difference.

What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.