Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism. — Sir John Woodroffe Copy Share Image
In terms of the symbolism, I think that if you do it right, writing is a bit like dreaming. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
“She touches her wrist where her watch used to be, her fingers lost without time to hold on to.” — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Here I was looking for symbolism and metaphors and um . . . sometimes a duck is just a duck!"--Mr. Tushman” — R.J. Palacio Copy Share Image
“The mysterious gear of encounters between beings is the support for the theater of life.” — Paulo Ricardo Zargolin Copy Share Image
“Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Symbolism is the science of understanding the relations between the multiple levels of reality.” — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The sustaining fantasy of Nolan's Batman films - which does chime uncomfortably with Romney -is that the excesses of finance capital can… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
The symbolism of certain foods trip the nostalgic wire in all of us, whether the context is cultural heritage or geographic location. — Melissa Leong Copy Share Image
Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The notion that an image is a scale model of something else (say, a horse) requires a different set of mental events… — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
“There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black — in itself.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates… — Ori Gersht Copy Share Image
Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
And religious music and the sort of symbolism of it and everything. But I had this idea. Actually, I sort of dreamt… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
[Sigmund ] Freud did not under-stand that the dream is a highly creative act, written in the universal language of symbolism, and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Who cares what the color means? How do you know what he meant to say? I mean, did he leave another book… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The twentieth-century artist who uses symbols is alienated because the system of symbols is a private one. After you have dealt with… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“There is no single thing... that is so cut and dried that one cannot attend to its secret whisper which says 'I… — Roger Cardinal Copy Share Image
Halt regarded him. He loved Horace like a younger brother. Even like a second son, after Will. He admired his skill with… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
Those young ones who want to try military jihad are facing a triple issue. First of all, they are missing the point… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“When I was nineteen years old, I discovered a collection of books in the Harvard library written by Jacob Boehme. Do you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Even people who no longer "believe in God" or participate in the institutional structure of patriarchal religion still may not be free… — Carol P. Christ Copy Share Image
“The assignment of meanings [in music] is a shifting, kaleidoscopic play, probably below the threshold of consciousness, certainly outside the pale of… — Susanne K. Langer Copy Share Image
“Why do writers use symbolism?” Okay, so let’s say you have a headache and you wanna tell someone about it and you… — John Green Copy Share Image
I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
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![“Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.” quote by Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/33d/ernest-hemingway-83_old-man_then-there-is-the-other-secret-there-isn_2113368.jpg)
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