"Meaningful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of rope, so meaningless, so meaningful, held his imagination by an even stronger hold. Why a coil of rope in an antique shop? Who would want it? People bought rope in a hardware store—there was one farther along M Street near the old deserted Lido Theatre. But here, in an antique shop? Chris shook his ...
— Mr. Wicker's Window • Carley Dawson
... Somebody had been bad; And then, when I was snug in bed, Whither I had been sent, With the blankets pulled up round my head, I'd think of what my mother'd said, And wonder what boy she meant! And "Who's been bad to-day?" I'd ask Of the wind that hoarsely blew, And the voice would say in its meaningful ...
— Love-Songs of Childhood • Eugene Field
... E.g., on non-Unix OSes with a non-byte-stream model of files, the result of 'ftell(3)' may be a magic cookie rather than a byte offset; it can be passed to 'fseek(3)', but not operated on in any meaningful way. The phrase 'it hands you a magic cookie' means it returns a result whose contents are not defined but which can be passed back to the same or some other program later. 2. An in-band code for changing graphic rendition ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0 |
