To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Seven is the magic figure, because that's a symbolic figure of my favorite deity, Ogun. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms. — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
The reality comes first, and the symbol comes after. I see these things, and suddenly they become symbolic of life. — Mary Pratt Copy Share Image
The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer. — Vartan Gregorian 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
Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a… — Janet Erskine Stuart 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
“It has been said that the first black presidency was mostly “symbolic,” a dismissal that deeply underestimates the power of symbols. Symbols… — Ta-Nehisi Coates 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
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
...for limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
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
I think a cyber-terrorism attack is overblown, though the threat exists. I think al Qaeda and other groups are more interested in… — Kevin Mitnick 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
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
The truth is, the older you get, the less variety of parts you are offered. If you're a star and you've spent… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
Who is telling us about the false self today? Who is even equipped tell us? Many clergy have not figured this out… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For,… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Our junior national teams feature increasing numbers of kids from immigrant backgrounds, but who have grown up in Germany. Their roots are… — Oliver Bierhoff Copy Share Image
“What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a religion. Perhaps it is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I was less angry at [Carl] Armstrong, though I was angry at the people who came to his trial: Dan Ellsberg, who… — Nat Hentoff 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
If you've been in a symbolic struggle long enough, even when the struggle is over, you don't know it's over. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of Jungian psychotherapy is to make the symbolic process conscious — Edward F Edinger Copy Share Image