Quotes About Meaning

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.

This is football, things can change very fast. Let's be clear about it though: I will not be used as change to facilitate someone else's transfer.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar as it deals with things.

Obama's most radical goal has not been the transformation of our economy, our foreign policy, or our place in the world. Obama aims to transform what it means to be an American.

The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years.

A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.

There's no greater feeling than knowing that you helped in transforming someone and moving them through art. It's a beautiful thing.

The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.

We want to help everyone find meaning in their life and help translate the story that each person actually matters in the world.

I think when you translate songs, you lose the real essence and the meaning.

My favourite language, actually, is Czech, just because it's so colourful. We have so many combinations, words, and expressions. I have to say there are a lot of things which you can say in Czech, but you cannot really translate, because the meaning would make no sense.

I consider myself primarily a songwriter first, so the goal is to write songs that might be personal, but that people can translate into their own particular life.

The surname Grobbelaar is roughly translated in English from original Dutch as 'clumsy,' so I think I was struggling from the start to rid myself of the clown tag that plagued me throughout my career.

In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

We made sure that Ian Gwyn Hughes from the media department gave a speech about the anthem. We translated it into English, what the meaning of it is and it is very powerful.

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.

The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.

Translation is at best an echo.

The thing that I just discovered, which fascinates me really - my name, McCann, the translation isn't 'Son of Ann'... It comes from 'Canis' - as in 'canine' - as in 'dog!' My name - Rory McCann - means Rory Hound, Rory Wolfhound.