{"quotes":[{"text":"In the end, Mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.","author":"Randy Susan Meyers","tags":["advice","fact","family","inspirational","inspire","lies","life","love","meanings","mom","mothers","parents","true","true-love","trust","truth"],"id":33671,"author_id":"Randy+Susan+Meyers"},{"text":"We commonly speak as though a single 'thing' could 'have' some characteristic. A stone, we say, is 'hard,' 'small,' 'heavy,' 'yellow,' 'dense,' etc. That is how our language is made: 'The stone is hard.' And so on. And that way of talking is good enough for the marketplace: 'That is a new brand.' 'The potatoes are rotten.' 'The container is damaged.' ... And so on. But this way of talking is not good enough in science or epistemology. To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least -two- sets of interactions in time. ...Language continually asserts by the syntax of subject and predicate that 'things' somehow 'have' qualities and attributes. A more precise way of talking would insist that the 'things' are produced, are seen as separate from other 'things,' and are made 'real' by their internal relations and by their behaviour in relationship with other things and with the speaker. It is necessary to be quite clear about the universal truth that whatever 'things' may be in their pleromatic and thingish world, they can only enter the world of communication and meaning by their names, their qualities and their attributes (I.E., by reports of their internal and external relations and interactions).","author":"Gregory Bateson","tags":["cognitive-construct","communication-world","language","meanings","mediation","names","object","rethinking-ontological-basics","substance-vs-relation","thing"],"id":42501,"author_id":"Gregory+Bateson"},{"text":"In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is the art of pairing unique quotations with complementary images in order to express thought-provoking ideas, challenging concepts, profound sentiments'.","author":"Alex Morritt","tags":["creating-new-things","creation","creations","defined","defined","defined","defining","definition","definitions","description","descriptions","dictionary","dictionary-definitions","dictionary-meanings","dictionary","epigrams","expression","expression","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","language","languages","languages-and-culture","linguistics","meaning","meanings","meanings-of-things","new-word","new-words","proverbs","quips","quotable","quotable","quotations","quote","quotes","quotography","quotology","sayings","words","words-have-power","words-to-inspire-you","words-to-live-by","words-to-ponder"],"id":43409,"author_id":"Alex+Morritt"},{"text":"So that made me happy but the part that really made me happy was that you wanted me to be happy. That's what Thank you means.","author":"Margaret Atwood","tags":["empathy","happiness","meanings","thanks"],"id":47498,"author_id":"Margaret+Atwood"},{"text":"The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences. ","author":"Markus Zusak","tags":["fire","meanings","words"],"id":57279,"author_id":"Markus+Zusak"},{"text":"Espere' in Spanish, is the one word covering two meanings: 'waiting' and 'hoping'. If life, however, offers no expectation or prospect, waiting represents time 'wasted”. Waiting needs a future. If not, time is condemned to be 'killed'. In the event that we are lost in a gap of boredom and despair, we are driven back in a vacuum of senselessness and deadlocked in a point of nothingness. We are, so therefore, bound to watch the agony of 'time'. ('Waiting for a place behind the geraniums ' ).","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["agony","boredom","bound","condemned","deadlocked","despair","driven","expectation","future","gap","geraniums","hoping","killed","life","lost","meanings","need","nothingness","point","prospect","senselessness","spanish","therefore","time","vacuum","waiting","wasted","watch","word"],"id":80967,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"Wake up to think of words… want to walk through pages of meanings, the links in assonance, alliteration, or just simple sense that moves the eye to leap that way to the next-door play of sound and resonance.","author":"Initially NO","tags":["dictionaries","dictionary","meanings","pages","sense","sounds","wordplay","words"],"id":84865,"author_id":"Initially+NO"},{"text":"Definitions and meanings change all the time. Truth and reality are very volatile, indefinite, multi layered and sometimes very paradoxical. That’s why it is very fiddly to make a set definition for the phenomena of our daily life. ( ' Did not expect it would ever happen, there' ).","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["all-the-time","change","daily-life","definitions","expect","fiddly","happen","indefinite","meanings","multi-layered","paradoxical","phenomena","reality","set","sometimes","truth","volatile"],"id":108344,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"The reason creatures wanted to use language instead of mental telepathy was that they found out they could get so much more done with language. Language made them so much more active. Mental telepathy, with everybody constantly telling everybody everything, produced a sort of generalized indifference to all information. But language, with its slow, narrow meanings, made it possible to think about one thing at a time -- to start thinking in terms of projects.","author":"Kurt Vonnegut Jr.","tags":["alien","allegory","english","information","language","linguistics","meanings","projects","telepathy"],"id":128772,"author_id":"Kurt+Vonnegut+Jr."},{"text":"When shrouded meanings and grim intentions are nicely polished up and pokerfaced personae are generously palming off their fantasy constructs, caution is the watchword, since rimpling water on the well of truth swiftly obscures our vision and perception. ('Trompe le pied.').","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["caution","construcs","fantasy","generously","grim","intentions","meanings","nicely","obscure","palm-off","perception","personae","pokerface","polished","rimpling-water","shrouded","swiftly","truth","vision","watchword","well"],"id":141894,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}