Quotes About Meaning

The feeling of being an outsider was a big part of my childhood. I think that helps comedians. That feeling of being an outsider. That desire for a perspective that's all your own. The idea for me to make stuff myself with my own meaning came from that as well.

Seeing life from an eternal perspective helps us focus our limited mortal energies on the things that matter most.

If Bill O'Reilly is calling you a far-left critic, in my book, no matter what your political persuasion is, that's probably - that probably means you're doing a good job.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.

I like Philip Larkin an awful lot; I really like his view on life, and I really connect to it.

You can't be too concerned with the philosophical meanings of the character and how it will affect everything else.

It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?

My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

Everything we do is art, philosophy, mysticism, cultural commentary.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

If somebody says to you, 'MTV,' you think of Mick Jagger on a phone screaming at that phone: 'I want my MTV.' That, to me, was always the epitome of great advertising.

Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.

I don't own photograph albums - the pictures that are important to me are etched in my mind.

I learned early on that if I was to get attention, I would have to be charming. Even the models I've photographed are often like that. Some of them are not beautiful. But, if you catch them in the right light, they glow.

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

Photography must be integrated with the story.

I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.

Increasingly, the work I'm doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I'm trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.

'Everything is four' is a phrase that has been coined before me. Four is a number of completion. Four is a number that's literally all around.

I definitely stand by the phrase that I'm an entertainer and not a role model.

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

The physical world is not going away, just items take on different meaning. Paper takes on this archival, very important meaning now that it's not the only way to communicate something.