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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
by Orson Welles (Actor, American , born in 1915) keywords: act, anything, audience, becomes, contribute, get, give, gives, hint, just, meaning, more, much, scene, social, suggestion, than, theater, them, themselves, too, want, won , working After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
by H. G. Wells (Author, English , born in 1866) keywords: after, begin, even, great, may, meaning, number, phrase, realize, repeated, times , true I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
by Alfred North Whitehead (Mathematician, English , born in 1861) keywords: altogether, context, deal, destroyed, distorted, either, great, incongruous, juxtaposition, matter, meaning, mine, out, quite, quoted, sentence, some, suffered, which , writers But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.
by Benjamin Whorf (Scientist, American , born in 1897) keywords: became, behavior, course, due, evident, factor, fire, meaning, only, physical, physics, qua, situation, sometimes, start , through Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
by Elie Wiesel (Novelist, American , born in 1928) keywords: doing, give, indifferent, life, meaning, obligation, our, overcome , passive Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
by Armstrong Williams (Journalist, American , born in 1959) keywords: abuse, action, animate, any, basic, believers, betrays, contempt, democracy, democratic, fanatics, free, give, hand, human, longer, meaning, murder, non, religious, rights, societies, such , which The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.
by Charles Williams (Editor, English , born in 1886) keywords: assumed, emotional, famous, generally, god, immediate, indulgence, love, meaning, means, ought, our, saying, something , terror Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
by Robin Williams (Comedian, American , born in 1952) keywords: ah, divorce, genitals, his, latin, man, meaning, out, rip, through, wallet, word , yes The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive.
by Rowan D. Williamskeywords: answer, bill, captive, clean, effect, having, health, hospital, leave, meaning, paid, particular, simply, taken, treatment, unless, until, very , your Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions.
by Tobias Wolff (Writer, American , born in 1945) keywords: anybody, been, certain, destructive, inadvertently, know, meaning, occasions, past, position, very , without Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!
by Stevie Wonder (Musician, American , born in 1950) keywords: celebrate, defeat, gods, hands, life, meaning, only, struggle, triumph , us Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
by Francis Wright (Activist, Scottish , born in 1795) keywords: around, arrive, attentive, authorities, dictum, examine, facts, into, learned, meaning, nature, observation, passing, personal, received, simple, surely, things, time, upon, us , words "Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
by Frank Lloyd Wright (Architect, American , born in 1970) keywords: back, first, getting, into, master, meaning, old, parts, principles, reduce, say, simple, simplest, terms, think, used , whole I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.
by Lalu Prasad Yadav (Politician, Indian , born in 1947) keywords: always, am, deeper, funny, gives, heart, hope, how, interests, know, life, manage, meaning, mind, out, own, poor, say, see, situations, socialist, some, their, them, tough, way , work First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.
by Daniel Yergin (Author, American , born in 1947) keywords: americans, common, dependence, different, energy, europeans, find, first, focused, gas, imported, meaning, much, natural, notion, now, question, radically, right, security, very , vocabulary
