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
Here above the farms and ranches of the Great Plains aviation lives up to the promise that inspired dreamers through the ages.… — Stephen Coonts Copy Share Image
Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people. — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity. — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious. — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
“What's it like here? There's a biscuit factory next door. We get the broken ones.” — Hiedi Thomas Jennifer Worth Copy Share Image
“as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The trouble with "sacrifices as symbolic acts" is that the immediate impact on those for whom the sacrifice is made quickly fades,… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Mars is the symbolic and totally stimulating next objective that could so dominate the next century's exploration efforts. From Mars, the resources… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
When you're a female poet, would you, therefore, invoke a male muse? When nuns get consecrated into their vocations, they become brides… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Good design is a visual statement that maximizes the life goals of the people in a given culture (or, more realistically, the… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a play about double nature ... one that wouldn't be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff.… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
The maxims of Christian life, which should draw upon the truths of the Gospel, are always partially symbolic of the mind and… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the… — Christopher McDowell Copy Share Image
“Oh, Matthew," she whispered, moved to tears. "I called it Grace . I hope you don't mind." For the first time, his… — Anna Campbell Copy Share Image
“From the bonny bells of heather, They brewed a drink long syne, Was sweeter far than honey, Was stronger far than wine.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Today's terrorists are pursuing a distinct route. They are increasingly attacking civilians in symbolic targets, such as those of economic importance, or… — Cliff Stearns Copy Share Image
So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had… — Mohsen Makhmalbaf Copy Share Image
According to me [Sigmund ] Freud did not notice that the dream expresses the inner experiences in a symbolic form,resembling in that,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
“The rest of the girls out there are just shooting stars," Simon whispered into my ear. "They're on a crash course to… — Amanda Howells Copy Share Image
What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Our President has given symbolic support to the National Day of Prayer but I believe that our nation needs an impassioned call… — Jonathan Falwell Copy Share Image