New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As far as inspiration goes, I'm constantly inspired by traveling, symbols, magic and different cultural traditions around the world. — Pamela Love Copy Share Image
There is in the Sacred Heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
If the person who can effectively sanction ill-conceived wars can play the electric guitar, which is a symbol of rebellion, then that… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
I've said it before: equations are the devil's sentences. The worst one is that quadratic equation, an infernal salad of numbers, letters,… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling… — John Hench Copy Share Image
I'm convinced, that when you are a footballer you are a symbol. You have to be a superman in some ways, to… — Emmanuel Petit Copy Share Image
“Symbols shmimbols. Sure they're important but... Well look at Ahab's whale. Now there's a great symbol. Some say it stands for god,… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
There is psychological pleasure in this takeoff, too, for the swiftness of the plane’s ascent is an exemplary symbol of transformation. The… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Our peaceful borders and our peaceful history are important symbols, to be sure. What they symbolize, however, is the spirit of respect… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“Mercury. Lead. Antimony. A cresent moon sits at the nape of her neck; and Egyptian ankh near her collarbone. There are other… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
If you’re looking for a spiritual allegory in the style of C.S. Lewis, I guess you could piece something together with Lorne… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I remember the first time we stood in this spot. We were on the deck of a boat in the middle of… — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
“Turning and climbing, the double helix evolved to an operation which had always existed as a possibility for mankind, the eating of… — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don’t… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
[Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her… — Jessie Sampter Copy Share Image
Propaganda tries first of all to create conditioned reflexes in the individual so that certain words, signs, or symbols, even certain persons… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
You may have the best vegetables, you may be the most capable cook, but, if the copper vessel in which you prepare… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The efficiency of a President at the beginning of his term depends on their capacity to get everything under control. That was… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
Astrology is a fact, in most instances. But astrological aspects are but signs, symbols. No influence is of greater value or of… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
Numerical logistic is that which employs numbers; symbolic logistic that which uses symbols, as, say, the letters of the alphabet. — Francois Viete Copy Share Image
Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As far as I've been alive, women have always been more or less the symbol of sexuality rather than the male. We… — Raquel Welch Copy Share Image
One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
A city where the Capitol Dome, perforated like a kitchen colander, is the symbol of how secrets are kept. — Leslie Ford Copy Share Image
I'd hate to be a sex symbol. Because you're always having to live up to an image. I haven't got time to… — Julia Sawalha Copy Share Image
Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man. — Andrew Garfield Copy Share Image
In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity. — Adrian Cronauer Copy Share Image
That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus is a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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