Meanings Quotes

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings. Henri Bergson
Events Situation Other Independent Absolutely Simultaneously Always Comic Quite Different Which Meanings Series Each Interpreted Two
A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal. Italo Calvino
Born Network Tale Always Creates Meanings Image
There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art. Jerome Bruner
Work Art Experience Mask Possible Emerge Real Question Effort May Whether Explain Meanings Deep
I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have. John Barton
Sometimes Word Become Dissimilar Drawing Intrigued Seemingly Unrelated Combining Ideas Might Meanings Many Images
The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life. John Burroughs
Life Nature Looking Own Lover Something Facts He Mere Terms His Translate Meanings
There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves. John M. Ford
Every Those Out Point Clearly Ideas Readers Pry Want Forth Themselves Meanings Who Set
I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings. Jonathan Miller
Work Fashion You Result Think Sort Audience Literary Against Deconstruction Asking Meanings Now Gratuitous
I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus. Julie Taymor
People Problem Words Able Never Had Understand Being Meanings
Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective. Kenneth L. Pike
Behavior Perspective Language Universe Other Rules System Total Clause Unrelated Observer Merely Context Sounds Discourse Integrating Meanings Each Coherent Set
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience. Leland Ryken
Knowledge Experience Living Possible Kind Gives Through Obtained Subject Vicariously Literature Meanings
Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings. Lev Grossman
Me Books Defined More Oddly Than Beginnings Endings Much Meanings
When people think what is the most simple sort of human, it's a white man, and anything else that is added to that complicates it for people. It comes with all kinds of meanings and connotations. If they have a different skin color, that comes with a connotation. If they're a woman, 'Oh well, what do I feel about that?' Lisa Hanawalt
Man Woman People Simple White Skin Think Added Else Kinds About Color Feel Most Well Sort Human Oh Different Anything Anything Else Meanings Skin Color Connotation Connotations
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two. Marcel Proust
Change Words Year Our Minds Drastically Names Course Centuries Meanings Two
My central thesis is that combining increased temporal and spatial resolution in MRI techniques with increasingly powerful data correlation techniques will allow the derivation of interpreted meanings from neural signals. I observed, further, that the techniques that exist already allow some correlations. Mary Lou Jepsen
Will Increased Increasingly Further Signals Correlation Some Temporal Data Neural Allow Observed Powerful Combining Exist Central Meanings Spatial Thesis Techniques Interpreted Resolution
Gianni Agnelli was a sharp mind, and most of his interviews carried meanings between the lines that only now are fully readable. Maurizio Cattelan
Mind Interviews Carried Only Sharp Between Most His Lines Meanings Fully Now
In most films, when we act, we don't see such meanings in what we do. Rather, we don't realise it. Only when we see it as a continuous film later on do we realise such deep meanings. That is the brilliance of the director. Mohanlal
Director Films Later See Rather Only Most Continuous Realise Meanings Act Deep Film Brilliance
All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought. Paolo Bacigalupi
You Man Science People Writing Hidden Definitions Kind Must Write Writer Put Come Terms Science Fiction Inequity Rocket Ships Where Want Fiction Dystopian Meanings Fought
Writers begin changing the instant they append 'The End' to a novel. Readers begin changing the moment they encounter that same phrase. And even the novels themselves, through the strange transmutations of time and shifting tastes and mores, exhibit changes as we look backward upon them, acquiring retroactive meanings and tonalities. Paul Di Filippo
Time Strange Shifting Changes Changing Backward Phrase Through Writers Instant Look Readers Exhibit Encounter End Begin Same Tastes Them Acquiring Themselves Meanings Moment Even Novel Novels
In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language. Peter Zumthor
Architecture Speak Language Own Society Counteract Put Up Forms Meanings Waste Resistance
When I wrote the lyrics, melodies, and the first themes of 'Serendipity,' I tried to come up with some rare things you find in life, something very special, like the calico, three-striped cat; things that have extraordinary meanings in people's lives. RM
Life You People Rare First Extraordinary Lyrics Melodies Tried Find Some Something Cat Come Like Wrote Up Very Themes Meanings Special Serendipity Lives Things
Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics. Rachel Kushner
Politics Art About Transcendent Meanings Play
Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young. Rebecca Harding Davis
Old Slow Calm Young Live Corner Take Driving Between Days Around Hint Were Times Sitting Difference Chimney Moving Us Meanings Grow Things
What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give to it. Robert Dallek
War Fight Experience Soil Our About Direct Direct Experience Give Openness Makes American Interesting Meanings
The job is trying to create movie shots that have depth, that have the meanings you need them to have, and then good enough so that they will add something to the final picture. They will make the picture; they'll get into the picture, and give them what they need. It's an interesting job. Robert Forster
Good You Will Job Picture Add Enough Final Give Something Make Get Trying Movie Interesting Them Depth Then Create Meanings Shots Need
Naturalism says that we were not put here for any purpose. But that doesn't mean there isn't such thing as purpose. It just means that purpose isn't imposed from outside. We human beings have the creative ability to give our lives purposes and meanings. Sean M. Carroll
Creative Our Our Lives Says Ability Give Purpose Purposes Outside Put Were Imposed Any Human Just Human Beings Mean Meanings Means Naturalism Beings Lives Thing Here
Woody says I can make jokes, but I don't get them - I'm always looking deeper for the meanings. Soon-Yi Previn
Jokes Looking Says Make Always Get Woody Them Meanings Deeper
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