#meaning

Nowadays, people don't ask you how you are, they say, 'Are you busy?' meaning, 'Are you well?' If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust 'Busy!' to which the person will reply 'Good!' ↗

— Jo Ann Davis

#answer #ask #busy #cheerful #course

The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority. ↗

— Francis Crick

#ambiguous #amino #amino acid #certainly #code

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. ↗

— John M. Ford

#every #forth #ideas #meanings #out

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings. ↗

— George Herbert

#good #hell #hell is #meanings

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. ↗

— Tokugawa Ieyasu

#manly #meaning #meaning of #ones #patience

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.' ↗

— Cesare Lombroso

#both #god #his #i #knew

Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I cannot. ↗

— Michael Mann

#cannot #choices #controls #could #creativity

All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you. ↗

— Christopher McCandless

#means #personal #personal relationship #phenomenon #relationship

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

— Maurice Sendak

#children #intelligence #maurice-sendak #meaning #art

Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#interesting #meaningful #imagination