#means

When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#axioms #be true #believe #comes #feel

Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity. ↗

— Modest Mussorgsky

#art #end #humanity #itself #means

Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means. ↗

— Joel Coen

#got #i #know #means #quickly

A deliberate choice on my part was for the player to continue to find new possibilities in the early Attic rooms far into the game. I think this builds atmosphere, though it means there's no neat division of the prologue from the middle game. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#attic #builds #choice #continue #deliberate

Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done. ↗

— Donald Norman

#although #always #back #be happy #being

Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States. ↗

— Oliver North

#conjure #image #know #listeners #means

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#advice #ask #chosen #cures #find

Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#available #course #each #every #fast

We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#believe #crude #cut #days #early

Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#agreeing #extremists #means #them #think