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DEYTH BANGER We have seen that English words have meaning in a sentence because of their position in the sentence...
CHARLTON LAIRD Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.
CONFUCIUS There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than...
MARCEL DUCHAMP We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us
DAVID SEAMANDS The meaning of the words is necessary and not their extent.
SORIN CERIN 'Recluse' is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk ...
THOMAS PYNCHON Silence has thousand meaning with no speech.Some speech may have thousand words with no meaning.
KOWSALAPATHY We can't change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect...
EVAN MEEKINS Because words have deep meaning, Tweets have power.
GERMANY KENT Justice Thomas, my old boss, got 52 votes. Justice (Antonin) Scalia got 98 votes, ... But Justice Th...
WENDY LONG Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refus...
VIRGINIA WOOLF In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It's called 'Scalia/Ginsburg.&...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG I don't know what a credit bubble means. I don't even know what a bubble means. These words ...
EUGENE FAMA There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their ...
P. J. HARVEY Words have meaning beyond the obvious. Words have consequences beyond intentions. Civil words align ...
JOHN R. DALLAS JR. Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary: Words You Knew the Meaning Of
JEFF FOXWORTHY maybe makes Bobby Siller's words carry a little more meaning.
BILL THOMPSON Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have a differ...
BLAISE PASCAL Sometimes I just thumb through the dictionary. I find words I don't know the meaning of.
DYLAN WILLIAMS It really comes down to can you count to five, and frankly, I can only count to two?[Antonin] Scalia...
CLARKE FORSYTHE Just because you haven't got a home, doesn't make you homeless.
and
Just because you don't...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have differen...
BLAISE PASCAL The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning "ability to," and bics, meaning "withst...
DAVE BARRY The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning "ability to," and bics, meaning "withsta...
DAVE BARRY In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
MASON COOLEY I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings ...
KIM KI-DUK Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have a differ...
BLAISE PASCAL [Conservatives Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas and liberals Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsbur...
ANTHONY KENNEDY only if it didn't change the meaning of what I had to say.
DEBBIE ROWE There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the...
GARY ROSS When words lose their meaning and expression, silence is the only language that heart follows, speak...
AKSHAY VASU Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSON Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no m...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Words held meaning, but voices held emotion.
KIMBERLY DERTING Antonin Scalia was witty, warm, funny, and full of life. He was not only one of the most important j...
CASS SUNSTEIN I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meanin...
TIM BURTON I love voices, i always have. Words held meaning, but voices held emotion.
KIMBERLY DERTING My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfa...
JOKO BECK Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, becaus...
ANDREW BIRD Even anti-choice Justices Antonin Scalia and William Rehnquist respect precedent, but that hasn't st...
NANCY KEENAN The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes l...
TERRY PRATCHETT Less words more meaning, for those who 'know'.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific,...
GEOFFREY RUSH The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energet...
VACLAV HAVEL The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energe...
VACLAV HAVEL He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most wor...
BOBBY BOWDEN Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
ANTHONY MARCEL Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
ANTHONY MARCEL Hearts feel, meaning resonates, resistance sings, words connects and music finishes.
BRENT M. JONES Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades ...
MAYA ANGELOU Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves ar...
TERRY PRATCHETT Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
JANICE MARKOWITZ A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aimi...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I don't think people change; electronics change, the things we have change, but the way we live ...
JUDY BLUME Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only redu...
ANAIS NIN I don't know the true meaning of happiness.
JONATHAN DAVIS I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that'...
WILL OLDHAM I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually b...
MARGARET ATWOOD Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.
LIAM GALLAGHER When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and conce...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly ...
DELTA GOODREM Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep m...
J. LEE THOMPSON When you break out the acoustic guitar, the words are the focal point unless you're the Jimi Hen...
CHRIS CORNELL He would say untruths and be ever double, Both in his words and meaning
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.
ANTHONY ROBBINS And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As i...
ALAN W. WATTS About 90 percent of the pieces in my home are vintage, and I'm a ruthless editor. I only live wi...
NATE BERKUS What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic m...
KARL RAHNER Well-meaning Europeans sometimes argue that unlike the U.S., their countries are traditionally '...
NOAH FELDMAN The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My an...
AARON COPLAND Placing too much emphasis on a yes/no diagnosis, meaning you either have a disease or you don't,...
MARK HYMAN Wise are those who put the most meaning into the fewest words.
JIM ALTUM The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education
ANTISTHENES I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for ...
DOUG HORTON In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know a...
GWEN JOHN What is scripture? It is in the form of words. As the meanings of those words become clear (are clar...
DADA BHAGWAN Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.
JON STEWART Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it
ROBERT C. GALLAGHER I come from a jazzy, acoustic, folky background. Everything has to work with melodies; the words hav...
YUNA The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the expe...
EDWARD HIRSCH I just believe that the way that young people's minds develop is fascinating. If you are doing s...
STEVE WOZNIAK He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.

She was the bo...
MARKUS ZUSAK Everybody defines word in different ways,next time i say a word do ask me what it implies and dont j...
OLASOT Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's jo...
PAUL RAND YES and NO is just a word but it have big meanings inside it.
ADEL SAKURA Nobody will ever be able to understand the meaning of the measure of his own words.
SORIN CERIN What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic m...
KARL RAHNER Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, an...
JAMES HILLMAN Excepting for knowledge nothing has any meaning, and to have no meaning is to be nonexistence
RICHARD BURDON HALDANE If you want to get rid of the perceived meaning of curse words, you’ll have to get rid of the feel...
ORLANDO WINTERS I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tom...
VANILLA ICE I loved voices, I always had. Words held meaning, but voices held emotion.
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ANTONIN SCALIA is to give live-birth abortion free rein.
ANTONIN SCALIA a serious inability of our political branches to conduct international affairs.
ANTONIN SCALIA find itself unable to resolve the significant legal issue presented by the case.
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ANTONIN SCALIA The American people have determined that the good to be derived from capital punishment - in deterre...
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ANTONIN SCALIA A good, hard-hitting dissent keeps you honest.
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ANTONIN SCALIA I used to say that the Constitution is not a living document. It's dead, dead, dead. But I'v...
ANTONIN SCALIA Until the courts put a stop to it, public debate over same-sex marriage displayed American democracy...
ANTONIN SCALIA I think I'm a pretty nice fella.
ANTONIN SCALIA I do accept that, with - with respect to those vague terms in the Constitution such as equal protect...
ANTONIN SCALIA Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you...
ANTONIN SCALIA If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that yo...
ANTONIN SCALIA It seems to be an odd proposition,
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ANTONIN SCALIA With each decision of ours that takes from the People a question properly left to them - with each d...
ANTONIN SCALIA And what I would say now is, yes, if a state enacted a law permitting flogging, it is immensely stup...
ANTONIN SCALIA Some people are inherently likeable. If you're not - work on it. It may even improve your social...
ANTONIN SCALIA Like other human institutions, courts and juries are not perfect. One cannot have a system of crimin...
ANTONIN SCALIA I would think the normal assumption is if one person wants that search excluded, that search is excl...
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ANTONIN SCALIA It's not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections.
ANTONIN SCALIA I watched 'The Sopranos,' I saw a couple of episodes of 'Mad Men.' I loved 'Sein...
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ANTONIN SCALIA The counting of votes that are of questionable legality does in my view threaten irreparable harm to...
ANTONIN SCALIA You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations ... until they were all litigated...
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ANTONIN SCALIA I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned.
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ANTONIN SCALIA Such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.
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ANTONIN SCALIA is locked in the heart of the president.
ANTONIN SCALIA I don't know. I wouldn't want to go through it today, I'll tell you that much.
ANTONIN SCALIA When dinner is over, it won't be her bones on the table.
ANTONIN SCALIA They don't have any separate harm.
ANTONIN SCALIA I do not believe my impartiality can reasonably be questioned,
ANTONIN SCALIA Let the cancer patients suffer.
ANTONIN SCALIA I cannot imagine any responsible citizen would have objected to giving the name,
ANTONIN SCALIA I assure you, I have no agenda.
ANTONIN SCALIA I don't like interjecting us into a battle between the two political branches,
ANTONIN SCALIA The LSC subsidy neither prevents anyone from speaking nor coerces anyone to change speech,
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ANTONIN SCALIA A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
ANTONIN SCALIA over my dead body.
ANTONIN SCALIA You can make an exception without the sky falling,
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ANTONIN SCALIA Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry
out a death sentence properly reached.
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ANTONIN SCALIA A man who has made no enemies is probably not a very good man.
ANTONIN SCALIA My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.
JACK SCALIA There's a greatness in this country many of the kids today don't know.
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JACK SCALIA But this country is a great country and will always rebound.
JACK SCALIA Because if you have a strong foundation like we have, then you can build or rebuild anything on it. ...
JACK SCALIA Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
JACK SCALIA The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.
ANTONIN SERTILLANGES Mozart is sweet sunshine.
ANTONIN DVORAK When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from i...
ANTONIN ARTAUD If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again. Suicide...
ANTONIN ARTAUD You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the ordinary man does not know, yo...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
ANTONIN ARTAUD The stage is a concrete physical place which asks to be filled, and to be given its own concrete lan...
ANTONIN ARTAUD The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything
ANTONIN ARTAUD Theater of cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of...
ANTONIN ARTAUD However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itsel...
ANTONIN ARTAUD With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, a...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find t...
ANTONIN ARTAUD But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about dif...
ANTONIN ARTAUD And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted s...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNA...
ANTONIN ARTAUD The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath...
ANTONIN ARTAUD It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothe...
ANTONIN ARTAUD So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of fol...
ANTONIN ARTAUD There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
ANTONIN ARTAUD It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psy...
ANTONIN ARTAUD I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know t...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of yo...
ANTONIN ARTAUD We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness...
ANTONIN ARTAUD The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gestures, sounds, words, screams, ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Where there is a stink of shit there is a smell of being
ANTONIN ARTAUD All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
ANTONIN ARTAUD I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this-...
ANTONIN ARTAUD We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself...
ANTONIN SERTILLANGES Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD When we speak the word ''life',' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it fr...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all ho...
ANTONIN ARTAUD We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
ANTONIN ARTAUD Those who live, live off the dead.
ANTONIN ARTAUD It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand oth...
ANTONIN SERTILLANGES I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of you...
ANTONIN ARTAUD When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know...
ANTONIN ARTAUD The man who is too isolated grows timid, abstracted, a little odd: He stumbles along amid realities ...
ANTONIN SERTILLANGES [defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of...
ANTONIN ARTAUD There is in every madman
a misunderstood genius
whose idea
shining in his head
f...
ANTONIN ARTAUD