Quotes About Meaning

I lost my father when I was 19, so the majority of my life has been under this cloud, and I have been full of the intention to find out what happened.

In this era, soul is not a sound or a color: it's an intention.

No matter how big or new they are, I always look for the intention of the filmmaker first. Their intention has to be in the right place.

There's a difference between a job and purpose. If I did my job without purpose, I wouldn't have the intention to put things out there that should be heard. But I have a purpose.

I want to live a life full of purpose and intention. Sometimes when we play sports and athletics you can lose your purpose.

I'm hard-pressed to say that anything I do in my comics is intentional. But that is a stupid thing to say.

It's fun to intentionally write bad dialogue. It's not so fun when you do it, but didn't mean to.

If the mean thing is being said with a person who abused malice, then something sounds mean. If something that is considered mean is being said by somebody who has good intentions and has maybe a comedic lack of awareness, then you can get away with a little bit more.

Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem.

What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a good or bad.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

I'm more interested in life than life-style. Life-style means you have to drive a certain car.

Any fool can be happy. What I'm interested in is satisfaction. There's got to be more to life than just being happy. You've got to be fulfilled. You've got to be satisfied; philosophically satisfied is what I mean.

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.

That's what politics is. It's the story of what's happening, what does it mean, what's the conclusion, who are the interesting characters?

I don't see myself as having had an exceptional life. Yeah sure, I've had an interesting life, but I'm more interested in what's not exceptional about it.

English is the only interesting thing that's left in my life.

I do a film if it interests me, has a connect with the audience and some entertainment value. The rest doesn't matter.

I'm an interior designer from the soul. It's not about just putting things in a room. It's much deeper and broader. It's about self-discovery.

It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.

Design is an expression of one's most deeply rooted internal values.

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

It's kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else's hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.