ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient. — Colin Maclaurin Copy Share Image
Symbols have one characteristic in common with signs; they point beyond themselves to something else. The red sign at the street corner… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The more I consider this mighty tail, the more do I deplore my inability to express it. At times there are gestures… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The Neanderthals lived in Europe for more than a hundred thousand years and during that period they had no more impact on… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“He read me another poem, and another one - and he explained the true history of poetry, which is a kind of… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“The first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the cemeteries - and they're a cold proposition, one… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“We learned a lot about cults in seminary,” he said, “but to be honest, I haven’t given it much thought since it… — Glenda C. Manus Copy Share Image
Grandad taught me that the alien signs and symbols of algebraic equations were not just marks on paper. They were not flat.… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Often, the outward and visible material signs and symbols of happiness and success only show themselves when the process of decline has… — Thomas Mann 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 once spoke to someone who had survived the genocide in Rwanda, and she said to me that there was now nobody… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“There is a tree. At the downhill edge of a long, narrow field in the western foothills of the La Sal Mountains… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the cemeteries - and they're a cold proposition, one… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Mathematics isn’t just science, it is poetry – our efforts to crystallise the unglimpsed connections between things. Poetry that bridges and magnifies… — James Luceno Copy Share Image
