Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much meaning, to things. – Tino Sehgal
Nosology (from the Greek ‘nosos,’ meaning ‘disease,’ and ‘logos,’ referring to ‘study’) is not a sport for the timid, and certainly not for those so scrupulous about rules and order that they demand consistency in all things. – Sherwin B. Nuland
They’re desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open. – Victoria Jackson
I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside. – Stuart Chase
My whole purpose of taking on miniature painting was to break the tradition, to experiment with it, to find new ways of making meaning, to question the relevance of it. – Shahzia Sikander
Working with Madonna, she always told me the meaning behind the steps and why I was doing these steps – she treated us like actors. So I feel like I’ve always been an actor, truly. – Sofia Boutella
I was born on TV, meaning that’s where I caught my break. So that’s where I always have to be smart and revisit that medium as much as I can. – Taylor Hicks
To Africanize colonial and capitalist power would destroy the meaning of our struggle. – Samora Machel
Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution. – Uri Geller
I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me. – Zoe McLellan
Always remember: My general theme is ‘There is no message.’ There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That’s. My. Theme. – T. J. Miller
I come from a jazzy, acoustic, folky background. Everything has to work with melodies; the words have to have meaning. – Yuna
I think it’s good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people. – Syd Barrett
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked. – Viktor E. Frankl
There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them – Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high percentage of being very good. – Steven Van Zandt
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. – W. Somerset Maugham
I’m more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It’s not a retail experience. It’s an existential one. – Thomas Lynch
Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads. – Stephen Gardiner
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute… that gives meaning to our lives. – Tony Robbins
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. – Winston Churchill
When you live in New York City, you run up a long list of things you’ve been meaning to do. – Willie Geist
Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn’t: It was basically a semantics game. – Talulah Riley
My favorite song is called ‘Reachout.’ There are so many different stories told in that song. I think anyone who listens to it will gather a different meaning, but each answer is true. I also like the sound of it, period – there are a lot of classical influences. – Wynter Gordon
The thing I like about ‘Nashville,’ it just happens to be about musicians, and all the music is practical, meaning it’s performed at a concert or during a rehearsal. – Will Chase
But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don’t know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth. – Stephen Greenblatt
You can’t hear a word and just hear it as raw sound; it always evokes an associated meaning and emotion in the brain. – Steven Pinker