Meanings Quotes

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.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

No hidden meanings. We were just looking for something that had a good, energetic beat.

a real alternative, a set of meanings and values that can stand at a critical and redemptive distance from contemporary culture.

There's two different meanings for it. The most common is Friends Stand United.

I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes such cupidity will send you scampering to your dictionary: I will call such behavior 'public service'.

Taboo has a lot of hidden meanings. We're going to leave that up to your imagination.

I know you lawyers can, with ease, twist words and meanings as you please.

I hope that they'll learn to put different meanings with certain words.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

There are 14 stations where you stop and pray and read the religious and symbolic meanings of each station.

There are two meanings to the word dodo. The first one is a stupid person. The other is a species that was driven to extinction.

Times change and forms and their meanings alter. Thus new poems are necessary. Their forms must be discovered in the living language of their day, or old forms, embodying exploded concepts, will tyrannize over the imagination.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

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.

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

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!

The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion.

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.

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.