#mean

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#being #desire #duplication #earth #even

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#books #god #had #harvard #invented

I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that. ↗

— Aidan Quinn

#i #in the past #learned #mean #past

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#divorced #essence #meaning #object #reference

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. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#exhibits #labels #languages #meanings #museum

I would love, more than anything, to do an out-and-out farce with huge physical energy. Just because you're from the minimalist school, it doesn't mean you can't go big. ↗

— Aidan Quinn

#because #big #energy #farce #go

First of all, I only get 50 percent of it, because, I mean, the galleries get 50 and 60 percent. I mean, that's normal. I understand that. I don't quarrel with that. ↗

— Anthony Quinn

#first #first of all #galleries #get #i

I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians. ↗

— Anthony Quinn

#boy #did #else #hey #i

I mean, you know, actors lives - you're forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They're forgotten after awhile. ↗

— Anthony Quinn

#awhile #barrymore #forgotten #great #i

Now, Marlon and I - for some reason, even today - even today, we can't say two words to each other. We really can't talk to each other. You know, I say to him - Marlon can't talk. I mean, he'd talk to you. But he can't talk. ↗

— Anthony Quinn

#even #him #i #know #marlon