Shades Of Meaning Quotes

#1. I am stuck with my passion for the objective world, for the constantly shifting shades of meaning to the events of my life, to the states of being of the people I paint, and to the persistent need to get it right.

Burton Silverman

#2. Sun'qhela is a phrase with many shades of meaning. It says "don't undermine me," "don't underestimate me," and "just try me." It's a command and a threat, all at once. It

Trevor Noah

#3. Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.

Louise Erdrich

#4. That I had been shallow, stubborn, and selfish did not alter the gravity and stupidity of what I had done. I had made the greatest mistake for a woman literate in nu shu: I had not considered texture, context, and shades of meaning.

Lisa See

#5. The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

Keith Olbermann

#6. You'll never make your mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of meaning that is almost obsessive. The English language is rich in strong and supple words. Take the time to root around and find the ones you want

William Zinsser

#7. Careful writers and discerning readers delight in the profusion of words in the English lexicon, no two of which are exact synonyms. Many words convey subtle shades of meaning,

Steven Pinker

#8. Past conversations were slowly realigning in Blue's head, taking on new shades of meaning as they did.

Maggie Stiefvater

#9. As we progress, various shades of meaning and deeper levels of understanding will complement this initial effort.

Gustavo Gutierrez

#10. And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language

Mary Balogh

#11. The word "emptiness" for example, is a very important word both in Christianity and in Buddhism. It has shades of meaning however, that are different in the respective traditions.

Thomas Keating

#12. In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

Alfred Marshall

#13. Fear-addled minds swarm around conspiracies like flies around something foul.

Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

#14. Poetry by its very nature is subversive ... It turns words inside out, confounds meaning, changes black and white to ambiguous shades of gray. Never trust a poet.

Cristina Garcia

#15. Sorrow must not be cultivated: it is a poor lifestyle choice.

Tarun J. Tejpal

#16. Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others with various shades of analogical meaning.

John W. Dawson

#17. All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.

Plato

#18. I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.

Cary Fukunaga

#19. Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.

Maya Angelou

#20. [Nick] brushed the crumbs from his hands and then looked me right in the eye. "Kate," he began, "You are my cousin, and I love you, and I will always, always, always run you over without a second thought to get to a woman with a whole lot of cash.

Tina Lencioni

#21. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.

Maya Angelou

#22. All fine films, novels, and plays, through all shades of the comic and the tragic, entertain when they give the audience a fresh model of life empowered with an affective meaning.

Robert McKee

#23. THE "GAMES" BEGIN

John Feinstein

#24. One of the biggest myths debunked by science is that dogs see only in black and white. Contrary to that popular belief, dogs have dichromatic vision, meaning that they can see shades of yellow and blue.

Victoria Stilwell

#25. Most of their lives, people are just waiting to be ambushed. ~ Brandon Hull

Jayden Hunter

#26. The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.

Mignon McLaughlin

#27. Someone was waving a large pink-and-white sign that read, "Don't Worry, Be Happy." I was trying, and so were at least thirty thousand other bodies, with varying degrees of post-Aquarian patience, to see the Who for the first time in a year.

Ellen Willis

#28. Colors add meaning to life,
Some hidden facts they do imbibe.
One color could signify two things,
The onus lies on us,
As to how we take it.

Garima Jain

#29. If you're satisfied with your social life, according to psychologists, you tend to be satisfied with life in general.

Robin Marantz Henig

#30. I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.

Paul McCartney