Quotes tagged ‘Meaning’

“Norrie: Oh my God. It's the pink stars. Joe: And, they're making constellations. Angie: It's beautiful. Junior: But, what does it mean?”

— Peter Calloway, Andres Fischer-Centeno, James 'Junior' Rennie, Alexander Koch, imdb.com

“Hank Lawson: Yeah, and all month I've been saying 'No way.' Evan Lawson: I thought you meant no way like 'No WAY!' Hank Lawson: I haven't meant it that way since I was ten.”

— Andrew Lenchewski, John P. Rogers, Hank Lawson, Mark Feuerstein, imdb.com

“Can’t live with somebody putting a cap on my destiny. Spent my whole life working to be something greater by becoming something smaller. Then some guy comes along and tells me that being the Atom is as insignificant as an actual atom.”

— Andrew Kreisberg, Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Phil Klemmer, Ray Palmer / The Atom, Brandon Routh, imdb.com

“Life is simple, really. It’s all about hard work. Honesty. Family. Words have meaning and actions have consequences.”

— Chris Mundy, Jacob Snell, Peter Mullan, imdb.com

“Too much talk and words lose their meaning.”

— Chris Mundy, Jacob Snell, Peter Mullan, imdb.com

“You take a vulnerable kid, an addict, drop him in a mess of death and doubt, it won’t be long before he starts looking for something to cling to.”

— David Wiener, Victor Strand, Colman Domingo, imdb.com

“Our lives are brief. That's why it's important to search for meaning. We find it in our daughter's smile, in the warmth of our friends, or the comfort of our faith. Then, there are those who make their lives meaningful by making a great sacrifice.”

— Annie Weisman, Marc Cherry, Mary Alice Young, Brenda Strong, imdb.com

“Necessity is an independent concept . . . Its function lies entirely in the role it plays. What doesn't play a role shouldn't exist. What necessity requires does need to exist. That's what you call dramaturgy.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Bird Person: Morty, do you know what wubba lubba dub dub means? Morty: Oh, that's just Rick's stupid nonsense catchphrase. Bird Person: It's not nonsense at all. In my people's tongue, it means, I am in great pain. Please help me.”

— Ryan Ridley, Tom Kauffman, Justin Roiland, Dan Harmon, Morty Smith (voice), Justin Roiland, imdb.com

“When we can't dream any longer we die.”

— Emma Goldman, en.wikiquote.org

“Words do have a limited range of meaning, and no interpretation that goes beyond that range is permissible.”

— Antonin Scalia, slate.com

“As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.”

— Steven D. Levitt, amazon.com

“She believed because it was that faith alone that gave her own life any kind of meaning.”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”

— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com

“We all want life to have some meaning. Seems like the older we get, the harder we look for it. And the harder it is to find.”

— Manny Coto, Dexter Morgan, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com

“Say what you mean and mean what you say.”

— Norm Kelly, twitter.com

“Arts degrees are awesome. And they help you find meaning where there is none. And let me assure you, there is none. Don’t go looking for it. Searching for meaning is like searching for a rhyme scheme in a cookbook: you won’t find it and you’ll bugger up your soufflé.”

— Tim Minchin, goodreads.com

“People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our innermost being and reality; so tha…”

— Joseph Campbell, facebook.com

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”

— Alan W Watts, amazon.com

“A rose is a rose, except here. Here it has to mean something. It's beautiful.”

— Margaret Atwood, Offred (June Osborne), Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com