And to understand this, I think this is a most important point where I would like always to be understood what we do with the New York Philharmonic. That the meaning of the music is number one. – Kurt Masur
I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite. – Kim Ki-duk
This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can’t live without love. That life has very little meaning without love. – Leonard Cohen
Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others with various shades of analogical meaning. – John W. Dawson
I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important. – Jeffery Deaver
It’s really hard for me to memorize the medical jargon if I don’t know the meaning of every single word. So I do have to do a little Wikipedia/YouTube research to figure out what I’m talking about. – Kelly McCreary
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. – Maya Angelou
I live in Sheffield, and most auditions are in London, meaning I’m normally a bag of nerves on the train to London because you have all that time to think. – Jonas Armstrong
I was a drama major also so it’s cool to cuss for meaning, but for no apparent reason, no. – Kel Mitchell
I’m so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do with our longing for meaning as well. – Kimbra
Because if you’ve found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward. – Morrie Schwartz
My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete. – Joanne Harris
My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected. Despite that neglect, the literary approach builds at every turn on what biblical scholars have done to recover the original, intended meaning of the biblical text. – Leland Ryken
That’s the way life is: meaning is always there, but there is no clearly given way of decoding it. Conventional cinema obscures this with an easy reduction of meaning to plot and schematic characters. – Lenny Abrahamson
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form – or else it is not art. – Jacques Barzun
The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity. – Lucinda Franks
In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them. – Kate Smith
Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in Spanish. It’s the melodies and arrangements that transmit meaning. – Juanes
It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song. – Kate Smith
There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary. – Marcel Duchamp
No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers. – Ravi Zacharias
Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and the distance of half a world loses its meaning. – Robert Kennedy
One is struck in the study of saints, angels and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless. Yet, it is so common that I know there must be a deeper meaning. There always seem to be guardians and spirits of doors, bridges, exits and entranceways. – Richard Rohr
Some instinct – and I think it was a correct one – led me to do something difficult enough to give my life meaning. – Robyn Davidson