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Words take on many different meanings.
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
Over centuries, we have attached too many meanings to religion.
Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings.
Civilisation is slippery, the word has multiple and contested meanings.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.
Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
A lot of my paintings have quite negative meanings, but painted in a bright and cheerful way.
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.
To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.
It is important that we realize that words have meanings far beyond the dictionary definition.
So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
Woody says I can make jokes, but I don't get them - I'm always looking deeper for the meanings.
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
'Rise' has a lot of different meanings. It's a call to action to rise from the dead and actually live.
Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.
I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.
'Frankenstein' is a work rich in possible meanings, so the horror-show interpretation is as valid as any.
I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.
You cannot mean everything to all segments of the markets. You cannot have a brand straddling too many meanings.
A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.
You can't be too concerned with the philosophical meanings of the character and how it will affect everything else.
The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.
The meanings of words and the uses of words come from practice from the way people in a given culture use those words.
Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.
I love films like 'Deliverance' where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.
'Ratchet' has a lot of meanings. You can be a bad ratchet or a good ratchet. You can have fun, be ghetto, and get ratchet.
The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
Gianni Agnelli was a sharp mind, and most of his interviews carried meanings between the lines that only now are fully readable.
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.
I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.
To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.
Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty but also in terms of economic and social progress.
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.
In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.
There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.
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.
There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.
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.
There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.
Most of my rings are not expensive at all; they're just things that remind me of people that gave 'em to me. And they all have their own stories, their own meanings.