Meaning Quotes

“These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem.”

“There is a glory in mortality.”

“It's important for me to try to make movies that are about something.”

“Without context, words and actions have no meaning at all.”

“If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye it is indistinguishable from higher mathematics.”

“The problem of meaning is that it is a slippery object, which escapes determined capture.”

“There is no way to get from syntax to semantics.”

“Our real calling is to be a person of significance—to be a person who makes a difference.”

“The world must be romanticized. In this way its original meaning will be rediscovered.”

“Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.”

“Information is a difference that makes a difference.”

“The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.”

“I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.”

“What is the point of all of this? The point of all of this is that no one knows what the point of all of this is.”

“What is important is not so much what I want to say, but what I don't want to say.”

“The best of poetry is always about something else.”

“Every word has a shadow.”

“The entire intellectual purport of any symbol consists in the total of all general modes of rational conduct which would ensue upon the acceptance of the symbol.”

“The messages, in the case of communication theory, have meaning;... these semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem.”

“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”