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It's meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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.
The way I write, words can means lots of different things.
Words are containers for power
Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.
Nothing has meaning except for the meaning you give it.
Meaning is not something you can sell
Sometimes words that seem to express really invoke.
The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.
Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.
Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language.
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
The words are merely references to something not present
Auguries are oft subtle ... and dangerous - thou may deem they mean one thing when they mean something else altogether.
The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around.
Never let yourself be goaded into taking seriously problems about words and their meanings. What must be taken seriously are questions of fact, and assertions about facts: theories and hypotheses; the problems they solve; and the problems they raise.
The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.
Words matter, words have import.
Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things.
The meaning is the ending.
Words are a great influence in actions, feelings, and simply just the meaning behind it.
That's the beauty and the curse of the 'engrafted word'... it all comes down to interpretation.
No ramifications whatsoever. You're not going to ramificate; you don't know what it means. You don't know which of the words I use are real words and which I'm making up
Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you of the color your not supposed to wear around a bull. So you name the song 'Cow.'
In a relentlessly commercial culture, the communication of our private meanings has been vaguely corrupted around the edges by the toxic idioms of merchandising.
The meaning of a word - to me - is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words.
It's your heart, not the dictionary, that gives meaning to your words.
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
The reader may not see [these meanings], but they have their effect on him nonetheless. This is the way the modern novelist sinks, or hides his theme
See The Meaning Not The Problem
I express not the word for the word but the sense for the sense.
Words are, quite simply, weapons. How a person or an act or a thought looks depends entirely upon how - and by whom - it is described.
Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.
Without context words and actions have no meaning at all
[Metaphors] replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.
It only means what you decide it means.
Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use.
Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
Words don't mean, people mean.
Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they have gradually lost all such fanciful reference.
If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.
All meaning comes from analogies.
I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a schoolgirl's room
a complete mess
so the great thing is to make out a way of seeing it all as ordered, as right, as inferred and following.
Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!
Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and directly contradictory evaluations on the part of the speakers.
Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
Words can be powerful allies. Or enemies
Cut the pie any way you like, "meanings" just ain't in the head!
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
Metaphors are dangerous. Calling something by a false name changes it, and metaphor is just a fancy way of calling something by a false name.
Watering down the currency of expression, causing anything to mean whatever you want it to mean, until nothing is meant and nothing is precise.
Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.
Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special.
Euphemisms, like fashions, have their day and pass, perhaps to return at another time. Like the guests at a masquerade ball, they enjoy social approval only so long as they retain the capacity for deception.
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.
The meaning of a word is its use in the language.
Meaning is context bound, but context is boundless
With language, as with so much, context is all.
Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them.
Words are potentially dangerous weapons that reveal things better left unsaid.
We all have choices in the way we react to the words we hear. Our lives and the lives of all those around us will be significantly improved if we choose to react positively rather than negatively.
Nothing abstruse or ambivalent about it, not a speck of the metaphoric or the symbolic.
Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.
Your name is
the strongest
positive and negative
connotation in any language
it either lights me up or
leaves me aching for days
An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.
You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't,
A bad word triggers another in your opponent. Be ready to reap what you plant
I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.
Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
The trouble with words is that no matter how much sense they make in theory, they can't change what you feel inside.
How delicately language skirts the issue. How meaningless it is.
Everything's a bad metaphor for sex.
Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.
Give me ambiguity or something else.
An inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both.
Meanings come not from events themselves, but from what we bring to them.
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen.
Words strike the air and the mind, they act on the senses and on the soul.
The right word at the right time helps you make sense of the world. It helps, but sometimes not a lot.
When the meaning is unclear there is no meaning.
People tend to overuse any idea or concept that delivers an emotional kick.
The abuse of symbolism is like the abuse of food or drink: it makes people ill, and so their reactions become deranged.
The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
Be respectful of words. They mean something.
All words, in every language, are metaphors.
Senses are the means
Life lies in the means
Life has no connotations
All labels are offensive in some way.
Things are often spoke and seldom meant.
In the big scheme, it means little. But in our little scheme, it's big.
Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out, if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.
Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
Words Have The Power To Change Us