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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations. -- Alfred Adler
Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them. -- Blaise Pascal
Meanings come not from events themselves, but from what we bring to them. -- Lucy Calkins
I think there are no meaningful images. Meanings are created outside of the image. -- Joachim Schmid
Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them -- John Lennon
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Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is. -- Marina Warner
Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters. -- Tarthang Tulku
Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right. -- Roald Dahl
Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves. -- Kathleen Raine
When I say something, I mean what I say, despite what a dictionary says I mean. Meanings of words are slaves that I put to work constructing my pyramids of thought." -- Jarod Kintz
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings. -- George Herbert
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. -- Henry David Thoreau
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation. -- George Eliot
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects. -- Blaise Pascal
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. -- Jackson Pollock
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. -- Oscar Wilde
I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge. -- George Edward Woodberry
A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal. -- Italo Calvino
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
To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation. -- George H. Mead
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
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
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
Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world. -- Oscar Wilde
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! -- William Makepeace Thackeray
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. -- David Bohm
The scientific method is nearly perfect for understanding the physical aspects of our life. But it is a radically limited viewfinder in its inability to offer values, morals and meanings that are at the center of our lives. -- Huston Smith
I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. They learn to communicate with double meanings. -- Vik Muniz
It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else. -- David Lynch
That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation. -- Hans Jonas
Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things. -- J. Cole
As in all matters involving love, which has so many different meanings, you find that the feeling that we label 'love' is not a simple feeling, it's a very complex one. Under the heading 'love' can come all sorts of rage and desperation. -- Helen Garner
I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed in our culture are the understanding of the meanings of our music. We haven't done that good of job teaching our kids what our music means or how we developed our taste in music that reminds us and teaches us who we are. -- Wynton Marsalis
Words take on many different meanings. -- Erin McKean
The word good has many meanings... -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
One writes to find words' meanings. -- Joy Williams
Reality' is a word with many meanings. -- Peter Brook
You know sometimes words have two meanings. -- Robert Plant
I'm a sucker for double meanings in titles. -- Nick Blaemire
Words are like bodies; meanings are like souls. -- Moses ibn Ezra
To duplicate meanings is to isolate the consciousness. -- Floriano Martins
Always leave room for the reader to supply meanings. -- Mason Cooley
Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings. -- Charlotte Bronte
Brands play in an exciting sandbox of symbolic meanings. -- Laura Busche
One line plus one line results in many meanings. -- Josef Albers
Every good work should have at least ten meanings. -- Walter De Maria
Don't look for the meanings; look for the use. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. -- Eavan Boland
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings. -- Octavio Paz
It's meanings that we need to coax into our lives. -- Terence McKenna
A barrier to communication is something that keeps meanings from meeting....... -- Reuel Howe
I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open. -- Bill Viola
Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts. -- Christopher Bram
I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings. -- John Pfahl
Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics. -- Rachel Kushner
It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music. -- Kelly Jones
It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them. -- Marty Rubin
The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us. -- S. I. Hayakawa
Cut the pie any way you like, "meanings" just ain't in the head! -- Hilary Putnam
Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms. -- Daniel Bell
I use a lot of double meanings. I hide 'em like Easter eggs. -- Jay-Z
The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy. -- Susanne Katherina Langer
People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make. -- Juliana Hatfield
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. -- George Santayana
Don't sign your namebetween worlds,surmountthe manifold of meanings,trust the tearstain,learn to live. -- Paul Celan
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions. -- Kenneth Lee Pike
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity. -- Evelyn Waugh
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions. -- Kenneth Lee Pike
This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so. -- Werner Erhard
Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one. -- James Russell Lowell
Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds ... -- Alice Meynell
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities. -- Don DeLillo
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Our perception of space alters the space. It is consciousness that finds meanings in all spaces -- Tarthang Tulku
Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings. -- Eugene Ionesco
If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them. -- Margaret Drabble
When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings. -- David Byrne
The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory. -- Rene Dubos
Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor. -- Graham Greene
The years of wisdom in a man's age are where the true meanings of his life lie. -- Edmond Mbiaka
Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind. -- Siri Hustvedt
Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions. -- Ludwig von Mises
To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings. -- Zhang Yimou
The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly. -- Vance Packard
The Constitution is a 200-year-old parchment, simply because we digitize the words should not suggest their meanings change. -- Ed Markey
For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable. -- Walt Whitman
Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use. -- Jean Aitchison
F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours. -- Zig Ziglar
It's not for me to share the meanings of others. I am only in charge of my own. -- Paul Cornell
If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist. -- John Dewey
So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category. -- Caio Fonseca
Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories. -- Nate Berkus
Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody. -- Aristotle
The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed and you don't know what you're going to do next. -- Dan Fogelberg
But so strong is our desire for meaning, an innate desire, that we construct meanings where there are none. -- David Cronenberg
When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little. -- Stephen Spender
The fish trap exists because of the fish: once you have gotten the meanings, you can forget the words. -- Zhuangzi
Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives. -- James Russell Lowell
She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her. -- Rumi
Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them. -- Jasper Fforde
I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus. -- Julie Taymor
Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings. -- John Szarkowski
To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables. -- B. F. Skinner
One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body. -- Timothy Leary
It's really funny, because if you make up words, then people project their own meanings onto it, which I find interesting. -- Aphex Twin
Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing. -- Rebecca Solnit
It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything. -- Maurice Sendak
Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning. -- Sanford Meisner
I'm more interested in the meanings and the bands that fill up the spaces known as new wave and post punk. -- Martin Popoff
The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find. -- Bruce Springsteen
All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective. -- Ian Curtis
Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
I try to write in a way where the lyrics have many meanings and you won't really know what's behind it. -- Taylor Momsen
Change your meanings you alter your destiny. Life does not give us what we want. Life gives us whatever we expect. -- Harold Homer Anderson
Never would forever, with all its meanings, be so clear and distinct as in the true, guaranteed end of the world. -- Sarah Dessen

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