#meant

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#capture #defined #developed #extend #institution

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#fantasy #gift #knowledge #me #meant

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. ↗

— Brian Eno

#could #furniture #meant #music #part

It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me. ↗

— Vera Wang

#any #athletic #bed #compete #done

It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes. ↗

— Billy West

#celestial #could #everybody #had #jokes

I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink. ↗

— Timothy West

#cross #different #different kinds #difficult #got

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken. ↗

— Barry White

#believed #boy #every #freedom #i

Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows? ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#boom #exactly #had #imagine #instead

It's about, I did talk about my life in broad strokes and what home meant to me in order to really explore the subject of home and can you go back and what that means for people in that sense of community that we've lost. ↗

— Sela Ward

#back #broad #community #did #explore

I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

#about #back #because #began #buy