The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag,… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines. — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
We need to keep ringing the bell, wake people up to get our democracy together. Farm workers are like a symbol, and… — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is… — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing. — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see… — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
In every aspect of society, including business and anywhere that creativity can be used, we can be - or we used to… — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Copy Share Image
A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Picture a place called the Karma Kafe and it'll save me the bother of describing it. There was nothing in it you… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
The seed, swollen with moisture, burst asunder its covering of soil and out peers the blade of wheat, full of symbols. So… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
What is the crowning glory of your civilization... the symbol as clear a statement as the pyramids, the Parthenon, the cathedrals? What… — George Nelson Copy Share Image
Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that… — George Johnson Copy Share Image
We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the… — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
The process of writing a book is infinitely more important than the book that is completed as a result of the writing,… — Theodore Isaac Rubin Copy Share Image
I see the angel Moroni, standing atop the temple, as a shining symbol of [our] faith. I love Moroni, because in a… — Elaine S. Dalton Copy Share Image
Hail to St. Aegolius Our Alma Mater. Hail, our song we raise in praise of thee Long in the memory of every… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
The real important function of the church is to present the symbol, to perform the rite, to let you behold this divine… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
McWorld is a product of popular culture driven by expansionist commerce. Its template is American, its form style. Its goods are as… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
I hope that increasing numbers of Christians adopt the practice of wearing a cross in a simple and discreet way as a… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
When are the world's political parties going to get appropriate symbols: snake, louse, jackal, ... trash can, clown face, ... dollar bill… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I trust the symbol that is arrived at in the making of the painting. Meaningful symbols aren't invented as such, they are… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
Pumpkin pie is a living symbol of mediocrity. The best pumpkin pie you ever ate wasn't all that much different from the… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I think that superhero comics in particular are really useful for talking about big emotions and feelings, and personifying and concretizing symbols. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life. — Marcel Theroux Copy Share Image
Charlie took my hand and, in a symbol as old as the world, placed it in Edward’s. I touched the cool miracle… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
There is something inspiring and sublime about the little forget-me-not flower. I hope it will be a symbol of the little things… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I see them as symbols, and I leave them to… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
He is purple - the gay-pride color, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle - the gay pride symbol. — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
The garden is as good a symbol as you can find of a dialectic between spheres of experience - of culture and… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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