The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation. — Reuben Fine Copy Share Image
“What do I and a diamond have in common? We are tough, brilliant, and carbon based entities which evolved into something better… — Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army Copy Share Image
I took back a barrel of bones to New York. They were my symbols of the desert, but nothing more. I haven't… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I usually dont like to spoon feed my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so… — The Weeknd Copy Share Image
“Attempting to contain the infinite within finite symbolism of language may result in scholarship, but it will not produce devotion. (110)” — Prem Prakash Copy Share Image
“I felt as if my own personality was changing shades or even as if I had no personality. I was a blank… — R.P. Heaven Copy Share Image
It is what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of the… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
“It’s a long time ago that I lost my faith in Mary, a long time since she was the fulcrum of the… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I'm probably the most loquacious author when it comes to my dedications. The reason is there is some symbolism there. I've been… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I learned from this… — Stephen Hawking 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
“It was during this final Parisian period of Rodenbach's life that his literary absorption in Bruges really rose and flowered. Bruges-La-Morte was… — Phil Baker Copy Share Image
God Bless America started to become an almost ritualistic incantation at the end of political speeches really with Ronald Reagan. It appears… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Scapegoating worked in practice while it still had religious powers behind it. You loaded the sins of the city on to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We have learnt that the exploration of the external world by the methods of physical science leads not to a concrete reality… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
I think the Reagan people are superb marketers. Their whole approach to polling, to television, to the symbolism and the rest approaches… — Walter F. Mondale Copy Share Image
It's the emotion...each word has got a connotation and symbolism and the thing is finding what's behind the word-what meaning it has… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
“Symbolism and surrealism overlap in the way they give primacy to mental reality over objective reality, and this in turn gives rise… — Phil Baker Copy Share Image
“Other flowers came at the end of the summer, but by then the winter sadness had already dissipated, and the effect of… — Jessica Stern Copy Share Image
I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There's a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and… — James Jordan Copy Share Image
The 4th of July is like christmas without Santa; it's vacuous and irritating to those of us who actually look for meaning… — Anonymous 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
“(…) symbolism did not fall out of heaven or rise out of subterranean depths: it was elaborated like language, by the human reality…” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic. — Frank X. Barron 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
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
Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail (in art) may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism. — Anton Ehrenzweig 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
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
