Every new car, you open the door, and you look at all those internal mellifluous swoopy bits, and they have no meaning. – Jonathan Ive
A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, ‘The Clock’ is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself – something almost inhuman. – Jerry Saltz
While in Israel, Mitt Romney said something every sane person knows to be true: There is great cultural and political meaning in the fact that Israel has prospered while the Palestinians have festered. – John Podhoretz
If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible. – Jerry Falwell
If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning. – Idi Amin
If you don’t learn from why you’re in the position you’re in, you are doomed to repeat it. You need to bring meaning to every setback. – Jillian Michaels
Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning. – John Ruskin
In song the same rule applies as in dramatic verse: the meaning must yield itself, or yield itself sufficiently to arouse the attention and interest, in real time. – James Fenton
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. – John Stuart Mill
I’m trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works – to what we are as a species, how we’ve come up with telling stories in scenes and images. – Ira Glass
I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time. – Ioan Gruffudd
I’m definitely working class, and I still believe in those values. I know that losing everything would not be an unfamiliar feeling. Meaning, if you don’t have it anymore, you didn’t have it to begin with. – John Travolta
I do think that once you remove the limitations of the page, once you turn text transitive, meaning it can be clicked away from, the forward movement of text can be interrupted. But I don’t think this is just a function of technology. It’s also a function of cultural preference. – Joshua Cohen
You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it’s so worth it. – Caroline Kennedy
Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing. – Barry Ritholtz
All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you. – Christopher McCandless
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. – Arnold Schwarzenegger
Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life’s journey. – Alexandra Stoddard
Originalism says that when you consult the text, you give it the meaning it had when it was adopted, not some later modern meaning. – Antonin Scalia
I guess I’m attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive. – Andrew Bird
I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people. – Jeff Koons
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out… Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. – A. E. Housman