“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
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 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
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
“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
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
“Some people know they'll live until spring and that's all they need to be happy. When I was feeling good, I just… — Arnost Lustig Copy Share Image
“our perceptions of the external world are habitually clouded by the verbal notions in terms of which we do our thinking. We… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best trained, best equipped fighting… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“The word nightmare is not a reference to a mare (female horse) seen at night, but to a terrifying dream – one… — J. W. Lord Copy Share Image
Nobody believes that the man who says, 'Look, lady, you wanted equality,' to explain why he won't give up his seat to… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
I grew up watching monster movies and horror movies, which I felt were like fairy tales and I think this always spoke… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note that the best periods of Italian Horror films came out of the Sixties, when Italy was enjoying… — Barbara Steele Copy Share Image
In TV and movies, you kill yourself spending all this time to think up the symbolism or what if that deer that… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will… — James T. Walsh Copy Share Image
“I once saw many flowers blooming Upon my way, in indolence I scorned to pick them in my going And passed in… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
A novel can educate to some extent, but first a novel has to entertain. That's the contract with the reader: you give… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Good art means the ability of any one man to pin down in some permanent and intelligible medium a sort of idea… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“The symbolism seemed so apt. The same technology that can propel apocalyptic weapons from continent to continent would enable the first human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is not strange that men of note and learning, attracted by the wealth of symbolism on Masonry, as well as by… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and… — Peter York Copy Share Image
“Across the threshold’s sleep she entered in And found herself amid great figures of gods Conscious in stone and living without breath,… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“A symbol is always in general and, however precise its translation, an artist can restore to it only its movement: there is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
“Some men are terrified by the dark nature of the Moon, but not the Devil. The Devil is afraid of nothing he… — Tanya Thompson Copy Share Image
“Plot these days is anti-intellectual and verboten, the mark of the Philistine, the huckster with a pen. There mustn't be too much… — Robert Traver Copy Share Image
I think that a symbolism is attached to particular images, becomes marked in the unconscious. To exorcise it, to rearrange it, to… — Sarah Charlesworth Copy Share Image
All things that are living are expression and therefore part of the inherent symbology of life. Art, therefore, that is encumbered with… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Thus the creative genius may be at once nave and knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and to rigorous logic.… — Frank X. Barron Copy Share Image
I wish that our culture could retain the symbolism and emotional power of traditional religion while combining it with reason and science… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to… — Kevin Martin Copy Share Image
As I write in the book, I do not regret either of my votes for President [Barack] Obama, nor my support of… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
![“In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both love and happiness soon thereafter. So to me [the May apple] is the mandrake, the love symbol, of the…” quote by Hal Borland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/908/hal-borland-9706_apples_in-a-painful-time-of-my-life-i-went-ofte_1435661.png)
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