“(…) symbolism did not fall out of heaven or rise out of subterranean depths: it was elaborated like language, by the human reality…” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Anytime you meditate, some electric jerks occur in your thigh...the symbol of premonition of an unpleasant event that has happened or will… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol.… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I love the emotional symbolism of the eternity band as a wedding band. It's like wearing the infinity sign on your finger… — Louise Linton Copy Share Image
“Tautology and contradiction are, however, not senseless; they are part of the symbolism, in the same way that “0” is part of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists. — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
Does it make all the difference in the world? No. But there's a great deal of symbolism associated with whether we're going… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for… — John Green Copy Share Image
God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to… — Kevin Martin Copy Share Image
As I write in the book, I do not regret either of my votes for President [Barack] Obama, nor my support of… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such… — Franka Potente Copy Share Image
I think as actors we need to close read scripts and we need to fully understand the intricacies of dialogue as well… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Thus the creative genius may be at once nave and knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and to rigorous logic.… — Frank X. Barron Copy Share Image
“It was lunar symbolism that enabled man to relate and connect such heterogeneous things as: birth, becoming, death, and ressurection; the waters,… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
“His mouth went dry and for a split second he had a metallic taste on the sides of his tongue. He stood,… — Hugo Woolley Copy Share Image
“ A Blessing Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota, Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass. And the eyes of those… — James Wright Copy Share Image
Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want the Obama era to be more about symbolism than substance when it comes to black people. I love him,… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
In a couple of days, it will be 40 days, 40 hours, 40 years in the desert - 40 is fraught with meaning and symbolism. — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
I find the English flag - the cross - quite frightening; it has very bad symbolism for me. Not just football hooligans… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation. — Reuben Fine Copy Share Image
Symbolism is such a major thing in 'The Wheel of Time'. One of the things that Robert Jordan was renowned for was… — Madeleine Madden Copy Share Image
We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've… — John Schlesinger Copy Share Image
I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The same pattern of the creation by supernatural gods of an ordered Universe out of Chaos occurs over and over again in… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I am automatically suspicious of things that wave their symbolism around and do little dances and bludgeon you over the head so… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Symbolism and surrealism overlap in the way they give primacy to mental reality over objective reality, and this in turn gives rise… — Phil Baker Copy Share Image
It's the emotion...each word has got a connotation and symbolism and the thing is finding what's behind the word-what meaning it has… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
“Other flowers came at the end of the summer, but by then the winter sadness had already dissipated, and the effect of… — Jessica Stern Copy Share Image
The 4th of July is like christmas without Santa; it's vacuous and irritating to those of us who actually look for meaning… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and… — James Jordan Copy Share Image
There's a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
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