In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The garden is as good a symbol as you can find of a dialectic between spheres of experience - of culture and… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
What holy cities are to nomadic tribes — a symbol of race and a bond of union — great books are to… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see… — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
I hope that increasing numbers of Christians adopt the practice of wearing a cross in a simple and discreet way as a… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
Among the other values children should be taught are respect for others, beginning with the child's own parents and family; respect for… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
In case I get hit by a bus tomorrow, I want to make something clear - I am not a snowflake. I… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
In every aspect of society, including business and anywhere that creativity can be used, we can be - or we used to… — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Copy Share Image
Could any symbol be any more appropriate of the ambiguity of human transformation? What mushroom is it that grows at the end… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A fish, which you can't see, deep down in the water, is a kind of symbol of peace on earth, good will… — Robert Ruark Copy Share Image
Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there… — John Green Copy Share Image
Listen and learn: you need fourteen characters, minimum. Use random letters, not words. Here’s a tip: think of a sentence, and use… — Julie James Copy Share Image
It is not my behavior to either wear minimum clothes, to band or to even be comfortable with a sex-symbol label. I… — Katrina Kaif Copy Share Image
We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the… — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
I see the angel Moroni, standing atop the temple, as a shining symbol of [our] faith. I love Moroni, because in a… — Elaine S. Dalton Copy Share Image
Hail to St. Aegolius Our Alma Mater. Hail, our song we raise in praise of thee Long in the memory of every… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing. — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
I trust the symbol that is arrived at in the making of the painting. Meaningful symbols aren't invented as such, they are… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
Pumpkin pie is a living symbol of mediocrity. The best pumpkin pie you ever ate wasn't all that much different from the… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I think that superhero comics in particular are really useful for talking about big emotions and feelings, and personifying and concretizing symbols. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Charlie took my hand and, in a symbol as old as the world, placed it in Edward’s. I touched the cool miracle… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
There is something inspiring and sublime about the little forget-me-not flower. I hope it will be a symbol of the little things… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation. — Friedrich Ebert Copy Share Image
When you can't see any reason for loving a person, you must be loving him as a symbol of something, don't you… — Kylie Tennant Copy Share Image
Signs are taken for wonders. / 'We would see a sign!' / The word within a word, unable to speak a word,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The polar bear for many has become a living symbol of the dangers of global warming. The powerful kings of the arctic… — Sam Champion Copy Share Image
Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
I feel sad for him. Sad for the boy bound to the killer. I am sad for the youth betrayed by their… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image