Semantic Meaning Quotes

The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.

I believe words mean something. I really do.

Words are a strange thing. You once saw an animal and decided it's a 'cat.' But cat is a sound. This cat has nothing to do with the animal. But I have decided it's a cat. So a cat it is.

My bag is approaching something and taking it to another place. Like words-you take a word and by the time you've finished with it, you milk it and you go through the emotion of what it is, what it means there and then.

I write in words. I don't write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors.

Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.

Nothing exists except through language.

Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter. Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words littered between her legs and all around her. The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this. Without words, the Führer was nothing. There would be no limping prisoners, no need for consolation or wordly tricks to make us feel better. What good were the words? She said it audibly now, to the orange-lit room. "What good are the words?

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

I hate using the word 'dark' for things that are negative.

You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

The Constitution is a 200-year-old parchment, simply because we digitize the words should not suggest their meanings change.

And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.

Text without context is pretext.

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'

Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know." "Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!

A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.