Meanings Quotes

For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.

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

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.

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

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.

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

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

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

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.

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.