#meanings

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #meanings




To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.


Zhang Yimou


#art #deep #meanings #misery #one thing

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


#books #fact #in fact #longer #mastered

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


#author #become #books #could #down

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.


Pedro Almodovar


#comic #emotion #feel #film #films

You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.


H. R. Giger


#because #curious #deeper #i #interested

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.


Vance Packard


#between #creative #creative man #difference #express

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


#call #example #five #for example #good

People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.


Juliana Hatfield


#every #everything #make #meanings #need

When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word.


Charles D. Broad


#concepts #concerned #familiar #long #mean

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


#because #better #different #else #know