As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery. — John Donne Copy Share Image
As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures. — Cecil B. DeMille Copy Share Image
Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
For me, drum elements are like hieroglyphics - I think of a certain physical figure, and a little three-dimensional glyph will appear… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
“Canceled checks will be to future historians and cultural anthropologists what the Dead Sea Scrolls and hieroglyphics are to us.” — Brent Staples Copy Share Image
Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren't… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“This grimoire was written in the language of angels." "Shouldn't that be,like, harp music or chanting, and not hard-core hieroglyphics?” — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen,… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks that hieroglyphics are really old but if you think about how the world's going now, I think they are just… — Scarlett Moffatt Copy Share Image
Everything in this world has a hidden meaning, I thought. Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics; woe to anyone who… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Hermeticism is the science of nature hidden in the hieroglyphics and symbols of the ancient world. It is the search for the… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Everything in the world has a hidden meaning. . . . Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics. When you see… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
AN ARTISTIC DISCOVERY OCCURS EACH TIME AS A NEW AND UNIQUE IMAGE OF THE WORLD, A HIEROGLYPHIC OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH. IT APPEARS… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Philosophical studies are beset by one peril, a person easily brings himself to think that he thinks; and a smattering of science… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
See yonder thin column of smoke curling up through the woods from some invisible farmhouse, the standard raised over some rural homestead…… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It thunders, howls, roars, hisses, whistles, blusters, hums, growls, rumbles, squeaks, groans, sings, crackles, cracks, rattles, flickers, clicks, snarls, tumbles, whimpers, whines,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“In life, the visible surface of the Sperm Whale is not the least among the many marvels he presents. Almost invariably it… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
In the mythus a superhuman intelligence uses the unconscious thoughts and dreams of men as its hieroglyphics to address men unborn. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have no message to give the politicians of the world. They're all completely addicted to promiscuous verbalization and I'm quite sure… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I wanted to show that the fables and mythic tales which the ancients have handed down to us and in which painters… — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
Books, books, books in all their aspects, in form and spirit, their physical selves and what reading releases from their hieroglyphic pages,… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Therefore, the central point which we see in the centre of the hieroglyphic Monad produces the Earth , round which the Sun… — John Dee Copy Share Image
Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of… — Thomas Starr King Copy Share Image
I wondered if I would appear on a temple wall painting someday. A blonde Egyptian girl with purple highlights running sideways through… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story - an idea -… — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
