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Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay. -- Crispin Glover
Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen. -- Richelle Mead
It would be a really beautiful thing if we could all just wear what we wanted, without it meaning something, -- Casey Legler
No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning. -- Joseph Addison
All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call "aware"--an almost untranslatable word meaning something like "beauty tinged with sadness. -- Gretel Ehrlich
The Lord requires sacrifice, meaning something above and beyond the minimum. The Master spoke of the "second mile" and told us to go there. Why? Because he wants to bless us, and he put all the blessings in the second mile. -- Hartman Rector, Jr.
It's Major Ketchup in the bathroom with the laser scalpel." "Hmm." He sliced a delicately herbed spear of asparagus. "Obviously we were meant for each other as I can interpret that as you meaning something more like Colonel Mustard in the conservatory with the candlestick. -- Nora Roberts
Most people are looking for something to give their life meaning. -- Annette Bening
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate. -- Marco Brambilla
I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning. -- Ziggy Marley
It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul. -- Ricky Williams
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. -- Muhammad Ali
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it. -- Will Oldham
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. -- Anais Nin
There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary. -- Marcel Duchamp
Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life. -- Donald Miller
Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden. -- Stephen Tobolowsky
I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else. -- Lauren Willig
I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning. -- Nate Berkus
Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it. -- Walter Kaufmann
I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature. -- Wynn Bullock
I always concentrate on respecting human beings and their lives and the meaning within their lives, and I believe that is something people around the world can appreciate. -- Kim Ki-duk
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. -- Mitch Albom
A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them. -- Mac DeMarco
In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning. -- Malcolm Gladwell
All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body, -- Charles James
Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself. -- Viktor E. Frankl
I think meaning is something that's really unnecessary in music, at least for me. -- Tim Rutili
Find the meaning behind whatever it is you're going through because everybody's got something. -- Robin Roberts
...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity. -- Don DeLillo
If you're really special, meaning you're doing something unique and original, it could scare people. -- Nicolas Cage
...and I discovered something: the meaning of my life was whatever I wanted it to be. -- Paulo Coelho
Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission. -- Jerry Pournelle
Just because something might not have a deep philosophical meaning doesn't mean it's not important or relevant. -- Grimes
Being called weird is like being called Limited Edition. Meaning youre something people dont see that often. -- Ashley Purdy
I was interested in writing something that has meaning in the larger context of global conflicts anywhere. -- Ru Freeman
Until you decide what something means, it has no meaning at all. You determine what something means. -- Neale Donald Walsch
You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something. -- Tony Robbins
My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life. -- Carl Jung
The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.' -- George Orwell
If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning. -- Albert Camus
My dream had been shattered, but then re-created, fashioned into something with more meaning and becoming more precious. -- J. Lynn
Meaning isn't something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance. -- Bill Crawford
Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'... -- George Chapman
Just doing a project because its an opportunity wont create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate. -- Marco Brambilla
If you don't make Christmas presents, meaning making something that's so emotionally connected to people, don't talk to me. -- Kanye West
The kids ask about marriage. It's meaning more and more to them. So it's something we've got to look at. -- Brad Pitt
I always felt teasing came alongside a deeper meaning, as if [Osho] wanted to convey something immensely valuable to me. -- Milarepa
Teachings that do not speak of pain have no meaning...because humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. -- Hiromu Arakawa
Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special. -- Dean Ornish
The word 'silly' derives from the Greek 'selig' meaning 'blessed.' There is something sacred in being able to be silly. -- Paul Pearsall
Fashion is something that you can attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction, the meaning of it is born. -- Rei Kawakubo
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If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot. -- Richard Gere
Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative]. -- Peter Kreeft
If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater. -- Anton Chekhov
When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else. -- Eric Maisel
When you do something just because it is needed, you involve yourself totally without it meaning anything to you, then action becomes liberating. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them. -- Guy Kawasaki
If grace is to be free - which is the very meaning of grace - we cannot view it as something to be repaid. -- John Piper
I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television. -- Adam Beach
Some instinct - and I think it was a correct one - led me to do something difficult enough to give my life meaning. -- Robyn Davidson
All talk of method and style seemed suddenly trivial; I became interested in meaning. I wanted to say something musically about life and living. -- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
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Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning also. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to them with music. -- Roddy Woomble
The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning. -- Wassily Kandinsky
I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that. -- Adam Rich
Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's passage for some reason. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
Never generally means "at no point in time." The term comes from the words 'no' and 'ever', meaning that something is not ever going to happen. Sourced -- Robert Burns
Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something. -- Audrey Niffenegger
The struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar. -- Andrew Wyeth
I have an awful memory, and I have a great memory. Meaning that, if I'm trying to remember something, I can't remember it. But my recall is fantastic. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being part of something bigger than yourself). -- Tony Hsieh
There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound. -- Gary Ross
I just wanted to do something that had some meaning that I can look back and be proud of, that my family can look back and be proud of. -- Big Sean
You can be an amateur and have a passion for something, but it takes a long time to actually become a professional, meaning that you can handle any situation. -- Patton Oswalt
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I think we're inevitably going to be depressed when we focus the major part of our energy and attention on something that doesn't give us meaning, only material things. -- Sam Keen
We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light...We all have something to give. -- George H. W. Bush

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