#meanings

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #meanings




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


#compulsive #conform #constitute #culture #distortion

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.


Stephen Spender


#comprehending #formal #little #master #meanings

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


Alfred Adler


#determined #give #meanings #ourselves #situations

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


#combining #dissimilar #drawing #i #ideas

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


Juliana Hatfield


#every #everything #make #meanings #need

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


George Eliot


#interpretation #key #know #meanings

People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.


Gary Larson


#cartoons #current #current events #deep #down

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

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


#clauses #coherent #context #discourse #each

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.


Kenneth L. Pike


#change #could #functions #human #meanings