Quotes About Meaning

If someone gives you a belt buckle, it's like a piece of jewelry. It has the same sort of emotional significance. It would be something you would intend to keep forever.

Isn't that what love means, to fill ordinary, commonplace, conventional things with magic and significance, not to need the moon and white scent-heavy flowers at night?

My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.

Art is significant deformity.

I just try to find things that either need to be done, should be done, or where I can make a difference in a significant way. And the things I've been able to participate in have been very, very exciting.

A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue.

To be a Christian means you become a part of the most significant story the world has ever heard. You don't become part of that without an ongoing questioning of what it means to become part of that.

At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

I used to believe in signs, omens, patterns, secret purpose, synchronicities.

Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

I think there's a great deal of information you can convey with looks or silence.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

You can't be silent and create silence in being silent. So you have to create silence or, rather, the effect of silence, through words.

Saying someone's a fan of animation is as silly as saying someone's a fan of live action. That can mean anything.

I do not chase silly drama for the sake of storylines, though it sometimes seems to find me.

'Earth' is a silly name for this planet.

There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.