Quotes about Meanings

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations. Votes: 4

Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them. Votes: 3

Meanings come not from events themselves, but from what we bring to them. Votes: 3

I think there are no meaningful images. Meanings are created outside of the image. Votes: 3

Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them Votes: 3

Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable"¦ More briefly "“ a word is translatable, its sound is not. Votes: 3

Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is. Votes: 3

Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters. Votes: 3

Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right. Votes: 3

Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves. Votes: 3

When I say something, I mean what I say, despite what a dictionary says I mean. Meanings of words are slaves that I put to work constructing my pyramids of thought." Votes: 3

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings. Votes: 2

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Votes: 2

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation. Votes: 2

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects. Votes: 2

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. Votes: 2

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Votes: 2

I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge. Votes: 2

A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal. Votes: 2

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two. Votes: 2

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation. Votes: 2

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels. Votes: 2

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings. Votes: 2

Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience. Votes: 2

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art. Votes: 2

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world. Votes: 2

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! Votes: 2

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. Votes: 2

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. Votes: 2

The scientific method is nearly perfect for understanding the physical aspects of our life. But it is a radically limited viewfinder in its inability to offer values, morals and meanings that are at the center of our lives. Votes: 2

I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. They learn to communicate with double meanings. Votes: 2

It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else. Votes: 2

That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation. Votes: 2

Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things. Votes: 2

As in all matters involving love, which has so many different meanings, you find that the feeling that we label 'love' is not a simple feeling, it's a very complex one. Under the heading 'love' can come all sorts of rage and desperation. Votes: 2

I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed in our culture are the understanding of the meanings of our music. We haven't done that good of job teaching our kids what our music means or how we developed our taste in music that reminds us and teaches us who we are. Votes: 2

Words take on many different meanings. Votes: 0

The word good has many meanings... Votes: 0

One writes to find words' meanings. Votes: 0

Reality' is a word with many meanings. Votes: 0

You know sometimes words have two meanings. Votes: 0

I'm a sucker for double meanings in titles. Votes: 0

Words are like bodies; meanings are like souls. Votes: 0

To duplicate meanings is to isolate the consciousness. Votes: 0

Always leave room for the reader to supply meanings. Votes: 0

Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings. Votes: 0

Brands play in an exciting sandbox of symbolic meanings. Votes: 0

One line plus one line results in many meanings. Votes: 0

Every good work should have at least ten meanings. Votes: 0

Don't look for the meanings; look for the use. Votes: 0

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Votes: 0

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings. Votes: 0

It's meanings that we need to coax into our lives. Votes: 0

A barrier to communication is something that keeps meanings from meeting....... Votes: 0

I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open. Votes: 0

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts. Votes: 0

I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings. Votes: 0

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics. Votes: 0

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music. Votes: 0

It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them. Votes: 0

The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us. Votes: 0

Cut the pie any way you like, "meanings" just ain't in the head! Votes: 0

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words. Votes: 0

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms. Votes: 0

I use a lot of double meanings. I hide 'em like Easter eggs. Votes: 0

The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy. Votes: 0

People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make. Votes: 0

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. Votes: 0

Don't sign your namebetween worlds,surmountthe manifold of meanings,trust the tearstain,learn to live. Votes: 0

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions. Votes: 0

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity. Votes: 0

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions. Votes: 0

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so. Votes: 0

Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one. Votes: 0

Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds ... Votes: 0

The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities. Votes: 0

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality. Votes: 0

Our perception of space alters the space. It is consciousness that finds meanings in all spaces Votes: 0

Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings. Votes: 0

If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them. Votes: 0

When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings. Votes: 0

The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory. Votes: 0

Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor. Votes: 0

The years of wisdom in a man's age are where the true meanings of his life lie. Votes: 0

Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind. Votes: 0

Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions. Votes: 0

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings. Votes: 0

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly. Votes: 0

The Constitution is a 200-year-old parchment, simply because we digitize the words should not suggest their meanings change. Votes: 0

For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable. Votes: 0

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side. Votes: 0

Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use. Votes: 0

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours. Votes: 0

It's not for me to share the meanings of others. I am only in charge of my own. Votes: 0

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist. Votes: 0

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category. Votes: 0

Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories. Votes: 0

Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody. Votes: 0

The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed and you don't know what you're going to do next. Votes: 0

But so strong is our desire for meaning, an innate desire, that we construct meanings where there are none. Votes: 0

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little. Votes: 0

The fish trap exists because of the fish: once you have gotten the meanings, you can forget the words. Votes: 0

Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives. Votes: 0

She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her. Votes: 0

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them. Votes: 0

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus. Votes: 0

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings. Votes: 0

To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables. Votes: 0

One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body. Votes: 0

It's really funny, because if you make up words, then people project their own meanings onto it, which I find interesting. Votes: 0

Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing. Votes: 0

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything. Votes: 0

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning. Votes: 0

I'm more interested in the meanings and the bands that fill up the spaces known as new wave and post punk. Votes: 0

The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find. Votes: 0

All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective. Votes: 0

Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings. Votes: 0

I try to write in a way where the lyrics have many meanings and you won't really know what's behind it. Votes: 0

Change your meanings you alter your destiny. Life does not give us what we want. Life gives us whatever we expect. Votes: 0

Never would forever, with all its meanings, be so clear and distinct as in the true, guaranteed end of the world. Votes: 0

No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day. Votes: 0

What is it about sex? Is it the sensations, or is it the meanings and the communication game that's tied into that. Votes: 0

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. Votes: 0

Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings. Votes: 0

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. Votes: 0

Any good album title has multiple meanings, and I like choosing titles where I find myself repeating it, almost like a mantra. Votes: 0

The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another. Votes: 0

The very meaningless of life forces man to create his own meanings. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light. Votes: 0

Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings. Votes: 0

I love films like 'Deliverance' where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings. Votes: 0

I love films like Deliverance where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings. Votes: 0

When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities. Votes: 0

In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more efficiently. Votes: 0

Perhaps like the many and various meanings of the word "we," liberals use the word "unsubstantiated" to mean "tested repeatedly and proved true." Votes: 0

Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience. Votes: 0

I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject. Votes: 0

We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations! Votes: 0

With respect to those meanings of 'human' that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig, Votes: 0

So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with. Votes: 0

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language. Votes: 0

Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the imaginary? Votes: 0

The world we all share is the same in important respects. But in some deep ways, the lived world and its meanings are radically different. Votes: 0

For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality. Votes: 0

It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words. Votes: 0

I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination. Votes: 0

You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all that you look at ... Votes: 0

Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued "“ even valued by the maker of the art "“ for other meanings. Votes: 0

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings Votes: 0

I wanted the song to contain various meanings, and what I wanted in particular was to appeal to the audience with my charms as a man. Votes: 0

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation. Votes: 0

I am interested in what I term gestalts; picture circumstances which bring together disparate images or ideas so as to form new meanings and new configurations. Votes: 0

I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have. Votes: 0

Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once. Votes: 0

An able reader often discovers in other people's writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them richer meanings and aspects. Votes: 0

All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices. Votes: 0

The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts. Votes: 0

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty. Votes: 0

When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words. Votes: 0

Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern. Votes: 0

I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate lots of meanings and translations. Votes: 0

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation. Votes: 0

If you see there is no meaning to anything that you are doing, your ego collapses; so you are trying to find all kinds of fake meanings. Votes: 0

Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through the process of discovering meaning. Votes: 0

A writer draws a road map where readers walks with their love, joy, anger, tears, and dismay. Every story, every poem, has different meanings for every reader. Votes: 0

That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings. Votes: 0

Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that. Votes: 0

There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves. Votes: 0

Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see it's like a portmanteau - there are two meanings packed up into one word. Votes: 0

We singers have a different level of responsibility from other musicians. We have words that we must convey; we have meanings that we must convey through these lyrics. Votes: 0

But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul. Votes: 0

Solitude helps the soul remember that life andwork have two completely different meanings. It remindsus that we were created for greatness in relationship withothers, not task lists and spreadsheets. Votes: 0

Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working. Votes: 0

When the music created by the sounds and ordering of the words matches the thrust of the meanings of the words, then a radiant state of awareness can occur. Votes: 0

The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from "controversial" matters, will never stand amid the shocks of life. Votes: 0

To write or speak is to communicate. To communicate is to share meanings, make them "˜common' to all participants in the discourse. (The etymological root of communication means "˜common.') Votes: 0

A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone. Votes: 0

An educational activity which aims to reveal meanings and relationships through the use of original objects, by firsthand experience, and by illustrative media, rather than simply to communicate factual information. Votes: 0

The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. Votes: 0

There is a compulsion that is perhaps the heart of life's meanings, this marvelous mystery of blood ties that brings joy whenever a new family member comes on the scene. Votes: 0

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless. Votes: 0

Not all meanings are meant to be clear at once. Some ideas take time. Some words are designed to lead us on inner journeys, with truth hidden deep inside them. Votes: 0

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view Votes: 0

Muslims have different meanings for the same words that we use. They are so convinced of the "truth" of Islam that they do not perceive Jihad/terrorism, or dhimmitude as violence. Votes: 0

When the symbols are 'public' they usually act in an oblique manner, revealing themselves as archetypal symbols, which though familiar, have their central meanings obscured as is usual in esoteric imagery. Votes: 0

For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for us, however briefly, our deep meanings. Votes: 0

In constructing our narratives, we identify which particular events or experiences were formative or transformative. In telling our stories, we also claim some authority over our own experiences and their meanings. Votes: 0

What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give it. Votes: 0

Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone. Votes: 0

If words are to change their meanings, as assuredly they are, let each user of language make such changes as please himself, put up his own suggestions, and let the best win. Votes: 0

The primary function of the creative use of language - in our age - is to try to constantly restore words to their meanings, to keep the living tissue of responsibility alive. Votes: 0

Well, what does "good" mean anyway...? As Wittgenstein suggested, "good," like "game," has a family of meanings. Prominent among them is this one: "meets the criteria or standards of assessment or evaluation. Votes: 0

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings. Votes: 0

We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff. Votes: 0

Painting, like music, has nothing to do with the reproduction of nature, nor interpretation of intellectual meanings. Whoever is able to feel the beauty of colors and forms has understood nonobjective painting. Votes: 0

In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all meanings start. That is where, in any case, the philosopher has perpetually to start. Votes: 0

If it's a language you don't understand and you're not concerned with the meanings of the words, your impression comes from how the words look, particularly if the language uses different characters. Votes: 0

For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation. Votes: 0

One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other. Votes: 0

People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence. Votes: 0

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. Votes: 0

Photographs freed from the scientific bias can, and indeed usually do, have double meanings, implied meanings, unintended meanings, can hint and insinuate, and may even mean the opposite of what they apparently mean. Votes: 0

How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into elastic patterns called "sentences." And these sentences into paragraphs, and beyond. Votes: 0

Language, after all, is organic. You can't force words into existence. You can't force new meanings into words. And some words can't or won't or shouldn't be laundered or neutered. Language develops naturally. Votes: 0

In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you can come to a lot of meanings within a short space. Votes: 0

The common-sense notion that 'there is a time and a place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times. Votes: 0

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. Votes: 0

When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so I strongly believe that it can be more powerful at times. Votes: 0

What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give to it. Votes: 0

Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say. Votes: 0

Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full. Votes: 0

Mine is a quiet exploration—a quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people, it is a great joy to paint. Votes: 0

The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition. Votes: 0

By now even the word socialism has so many meanings and interpretations. The Russians call themselves socialists, the Swedes call themselves. And let's not forget that in Germany there was also a national socialism. Votes: 0

In the Bible there are three distinctive meanings of grace; It means the mercy and active love of God; It means the winsome attractiveness of God; It means the strength of God to overcome. Votes: 0

There's truths there that spiral out of what appears to be just a word game. That's what I find mystifying about the meanings of things: they kind of unscrew themselves from the practical words. Votes: 0

Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It's become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a life it is. Some would even go as far as to say, "˜marvellous'. Votes: 0

The artist in all societies has traditionally been a kind of barometer, more sensitive to nuances and changes than others, because he is more deeply immersed in his culture and more interested in its meanings. Votes: 0

Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words - often ironic and self-deprecating - are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others. Votes: 0

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective. Votes: 0

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective. Votes: 0

The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person. Votes: 0

Mo Yan is a writer who, defiantly in the face of those who wish his work were less cartoonish and more straightforward in its political meanings, continues to sing his own peculiar and alluring song. Votes: 0