I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
Every small wrong, every minor act of cruelty, every act of petty bullying was symbolic of a greater wrong. And if we… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that. — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
The man is the captain, the women is the lieutenant and the kids are the soldiers. Like right now I'm not home… — Rakim Copy Share Image
Critics have noted Schwarzenegger's only previous government experience was serving under President Bush senior as Chairman of the Council of Physical Fitness,… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think it is extremely important that the West support this experiment [of Tunisian democracy] with investment, with aid, with symbolic support,… — Larry Diamond Copy Share Image
The protection of human rights to promote the dignity of the individual is too important a matter for symbolic gestures alone. It… — Alexander Downer Copy Share Image
“I turned to my kitchen to put the final touch on my dish--- a splash of black aged vinegar to the broth.… — Roselle Lim Copy Share Image
One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Machines will never be able to give the thinking process a model of thought itself, since machines are not mortal. What gives… — Regis Debray Copy Share Image
I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it's in a club, whether it's in a bar, it doesn't matter, and I just… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
Sociology and anthropology are not disciplines which take easily to situations where people are able to live out their fantasies, not just… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
In my real life I had to confront the sins of the father, but it's also a symbolic journey - a social,… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know,… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
The values of this Western civilization under the leadership of America have been destroyed. Those awesome symbolic towers that speak of liberty,… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
What an amazing creative way to magnify, and illuminate the courage of 30 Sheroes whose courage, leadership and character is symbolic of… — Emory Douglas Copy Share Image
Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present. — Eamon Duffy Copy Share Image
The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
As soon as a baby enters the world, the baby is immediately introduced to pain. It is somewhat symbolic that life begins… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
“The most elementary communication is not possible without some degree of conformity to the “conventions” of the symbolic system.” — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? — Hugo Ball Copy Share Image
The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous. — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image