#meaning

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. ↗

— William Gibson

#any #bits #fragments #impossible #information

And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes. A novel for me is an immersive experience where I feel as if I have lived it and that I've tasted the food and experienced the sex and experienced the terror of battle. So I want all of the detail, all of the sensory things—whether it's a good experience, or a bad experience, I want to put the reader through it. To that mind, detail is necessary, showing not telling is necessary, and nothing is gratuitous. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#inspirational #meaning #purpose #reading #storytelling

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word. ↗

— Eric Gill

#first #meaning #meaning of #skill #word

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#am #asking #atheist #big #big questions

But we as a culture have lost the deep intuitive understanding that Creation exists on many levels. We have succumbed to the scientific viewpoint. Nothing characterizes ‘the modern world’ more completely than the loss of faith in Transcendence, our arrogant lack of any genuine appreciation for levels of reality above our little everyday affairs. The deepest wounds to the human soul have been caused by our lack of appreciation of levels. By shutting the door on transcendence, we have cut off any light from that world that might have illuminated this one, leaving us in darkness,leaving us with nothing but a dead world where scientists are merely performing an autopsy. ↗

— Andrew Cort

#religious-meaning #spirituality #faith

If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#comedian #comedians #doing #down #feeling

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#creation #every #exist #expression #forms

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#composition #example #expose #for example #i

From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning. ↗

— Eyvind Johnson

#arrive #convey #inspiration #last #may

Everything I've done has been personally fun, important, and meaningful to me. ↗

— Ashley Judd

#done #everything #fun #i #important