#meaning

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#else #embodies #enhanced #form #meaning

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#experience #game #indeed #making #marks

We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#alleviating #burden #commitment #comprehensive #conservation

And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow. ↗

— Frederick Henry Hedge

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The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left. ↗

— Robert Bork

#because #change #congress #constitution #constitutional

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. ↗

— Hal Borland

#appreciate #grass #i #i can #knowing

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#few #food #justice #live #man

To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets. ↗

— Dan Castellaneta

#common #diets #guess #homer #i

I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#charlie #combination #compare #different #different level

But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#certainly #eventually #gets #himself #i