Multiple Meanings Quotes

• The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.

  Gregory Maguire

  Elements, World, Juxtaposition

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• I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

  Anne Stevenson

  Friends, Art, Shy

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• Some words have multiple meanings. Scholastic, aware that I'm allergic to preservatives, kindly got someone to translate the phrase "I can only eat food without preservatives" into Italian. They warned me, however, as they taught me how to say it, that the Italian word for "preservatives" is the same as the word for "condom." So that I should be careful how I look when I say it.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Italian, Looks, Phrases

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• Siempre me sorprende todo lo que la gente lee en mis fotos, pero también me divierte. Puede que sea porque no tengo nada específico en mente cuando trabajo. Mis intenciones no son ni feministas ni políticas. Trato de poner dobles o múltiples significados en mis fotos, lo que puede dar lugar a una mayor variedad de interpretaciones.

  Cindy Sherman

  Gente, Dar, Feminista

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• Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say: “There is the surface. Now think – or rather feel, intuit – what is beyond it, what the reality must be like if it looks this way.’ Photographs, which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation, and fantasy

  Susan Sontag

  Reality, Thinking, Fascination

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.23, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Any good album title has multiple meanings, and I like choosing titles where I find myself repeating it, almost like a mantra.

  DJ Shadow

  Titles, Albums, Mantras

  Fuente: pitchfork.com

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