Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red… — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's "symbolism". Far from… — Andrei Tarkovsky 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
Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Numerical logistic is that which employs numbers; symbolic logistic that which uses symbols, as, say, the letters of the alphabet. — Francois Viete 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
That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Establishing the two Eids as official holidays will carry important practical and symbolic significance. — Letitia James Copy Share Image
Presents are symbolic. When you give them in your personal life, they should show that you are paying attention to the person… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves.… — Richard Avedon 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 whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says,… — Jacques Lacan 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
We surely stand at the threshold of a great adventure of the human spiritó a new synthesis of knowledge, a potential integration… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I am telling you that I am very grateful and am so proud of you for being a symbolic generation that is… — Hosni Mubarak Copy Share Image
“The moon can only shine so bright, which is why it needs the stars to help it.” — Daniel Varona Copy Share Image
