#means

What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe. ↗

— James J. Gibson

#being #believe #former #latter #means

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#carrying #character #feel #great #little

The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with. ↗

— Rita Dove

#grew #i #joy #me #means

To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#excuse #generally #gives #got #gratuitous

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#black #come #conditions #cultural #exploitation

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early. ↗

— Gunther Grass

#believing #early #got #grateful #i

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house! ↗

— Nanci Griffith

#being #catch #else #good #hand

Silence is argument carried out by other means. ↗

— Che Guevara

#carried #means #other #out #silence

I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#actually #afar #astounded #brain #constantly

Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations. ↗

— Chuck Hagel

#constraint #democracy #expand #expansion #freedom