In terms of the symbolism, I think that if you do it right, writing is a bit like dreaming. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism. — Sir John Woodroffe Copy Share Image
“The mysterious gear of encounters between beings is the support for the theater of life.” — Paulo Ricardo Zargolin 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
Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol.… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I love the emotional symbolism of the eternity band as a wedding band. It's like wearing the infinity sign on your finger… — Louise Linton Copy Share Image
“Anytime you meditate, some electric jerks occur in your thigh...the symbol of premonition of an unpleasant event that has happened or will… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Does it make all the difference in the world? No. But there's a great deal of symbolism associated with whether we're going… — John McCain Copy Share Image
When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists. — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
“Tautology and contradiction are, however, not senseless; they are part of the symbolism, in the same way that “0” is part of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
In a couple of days, it will be 40 days, 40 hours, 40 years in the desert - 40 is fraught with meaning and symbolism. — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
The fifth and by far the most important reason is that stoning is literally a means of crushing the murderer's head by… — Gary North 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
The symbolism of the Goddess is not a parallel structure to the symbolism of God the Father. The Goddess does not rule… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Like the subconscious, like love, like memory, like time itself, like every single one of us, the church is built on the… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America… — Aberjhani 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
“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
“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
“Last night, Good Friday night, at the bottom of the escalator at King’s X tube, a weasel-faced man in uniform was sweeping… — David Thomson Copy Share Image
Ask yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“As all material creation consists of out-births of things spiritual, the spiritual world being the world of causes, and the natural world… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
“They thought more before nine a.m. than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand… — Gillian Flynn 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
I find the English flag - the cross - quite frightening; it has very bad symbolism for me. Not just football hooligans… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
I don't want the Obama era to be more about symbolism than substance when it comes to black people. I love him,… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
There's symbolism in politics. There's communication in politics. And I think what Donald Trump is saying is, give me the job, and… — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail (in art) may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism. — Anton Ehrenzweig Copy Share Image
The symbolism in any kind of dance allows for recall, reenactment, and reexperience of events for purposes of resisting, reducing, transforming, and… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
I remember when I was in film school. It was my second year, and some kid did - had this really over-religious… — Jeff Baena Copy Share Image
“We are all but symbols of some greater thing—totems of ourselves--subject to change and growth. When we forget that metaphoric sense of… — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around. — Miriam Schapiro Copy Share Image
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