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Meanings Of Words Quotes (page 6)

Thom Mayne quote: "My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own..."
My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness. Thom Mayne
Sarah Silverman quote: "It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only..."
It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it. Sarah Silverman
Friedrich Schiller quote: "Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a..."
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays. Friedrich Schiller
William Safire quote: "When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a..."
When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary. William Safire
In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow. Gwen John
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
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay. Muhammad Iqbal
Tokugawa Ieyasu quote: "The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the..."
The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. Tokugawa Ieyasu
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without. Ansel Adams
Words, those precious gems of queer shape and gay colours, sharp angles and soft contours, shades of meaning laid one over the other down history, so that for those far back one must delve among the lost and lovely litter that strews the centuries. They arrange themselves in the most elegant odd patterns; the sound the strangest sweet euphonious notes; they flute and sing and taber, and disappear, like apparitions, with a curious perfume and a most melodious twang. Rose Macaulay
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. Marcel Proust
Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition. Murray Gell-Mann
Agatha Christie quote: "Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but..."
Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do. Agatha Christie
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. Theodore Dreiser
Willard Van Orman Quine quote: "Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the..."
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word. Willard Van Orman Quine

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