Quotes About Meaning

I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.

Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms.

There are so many things to be considered in making music. The whole question of life itself... I know that I want to produce beautiful music, music that does things to people that they need.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.

Every man wants to connect his life with something he thinks eternal.

If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.

This life is temporary, this body is temporary, but while I'm here I want to get as much out of it as I can

It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also, I think, the miracle that we really get.

I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

Jason scratched his head. "You named him Festus? You know that in Latin, 'festus' means 'happy'? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon?

I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.

The question is not 'Can you make a difference?' You already do make a difference. It's just a matter of what kind of difference you want to make during your life on this planet.

. . . a friend . . . showed me the kitchen in her new home with the words, "This is my office." I knew what she meant. This is where I do the work I want to, the work I like and enjoy.

Somebody asked me a question. It was a defining question: 'What type of legacy do you want to leave?' We ask that question a lot later in life, but we need to start asking it to young people.

That's the beauty of books. We get to take what we want out of them and it can be different for everyone.

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

Also, think about your intentionality - are you getting lost in the method? or coming from the intentionality, the purpose? You don't want to do the mechanics without the consciousness.

I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.

I don't care about the word 'art' because it has been so discredited. So I want to get rid of it. There is an unnecessary adoration of 'art' today.

Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.

17So you see, faith by itself isn't enough. Unless it produces good deeds, it is dead and useless.