Meaning

Famous quotes containing the word meaning:

“The novelist’s—any writer’s—object is to whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, is fatal is when he does not know what he does mean: he has no point to sharpen.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

“Father, father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”
—Bible: Hebrew, 2 Kings 2:12.

Elisha of Elijah, meaning he is more important than these.

“Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.”
—Eric Gill (1882–1940)