It's no accident that Op. 111 attracts literary attention. Though it's music, it doesn't quite behave like it. It seems to be… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored!… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
I cannot understand why any young man - or young woman, for that matter - would wish to undergo the painful process… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Both the old and new physics were dealing with shadow-symbols, but the new physics was forced to be aware of that fact… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Copy Share Image
I feel this way about it. World trade means world peace and consequently the World Trade Center buildings in New York ...… — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
We [Christians] have the dilemma of using a symbol system that was not made for our worldview, to give our worldview... I… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
Wherever wolves run free, indigenous cultures have revered them as symbols of loyalty, free will, fearlessness and unity. But wolves haven't had… — Zoe Helene Copy Share Image
All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
“People are going to come into your life, and God is going to use them to help you. To them you’re insignificant… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A flag is supposed to represent everything that a country does. It doesn't only represent the good things. If you burn the… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I transmit astral plane harmonies through my brushes into the physical plane. These otherworld colours are reflected in the alphabet of nature,… — Norval Morrisseau Copy Share Image
What distinguishes a mathematical model from, say, a poem, a song, a portrait or any other kind of "model," is that the… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly… — Kenny Marchant Copy Share Image
“For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and houses are, for conveyance, not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I know I have sex appeal, but I've never felt like an actual sex symbol. Fans sometimes think I am. The majority… — Teena Marie Copy Share Image
The boy spends most of his time reading. And writing, of course. He copies out sections of books, writes out words and… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
When the Artist rises high enough to achieve the Beautiful, the symbol by which he makes it perceptible to mortal senses becomes… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
One main reason why the separate nature of the science of operations has been little felt, and in general little dwelt on,… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Sculpture is a parable in three dimensions, a symbol of a spiritual experience, and a means of conveying truth by concentrating its… — Malvina Hoffman Copy Share Image
Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
She [Hillary Clinton] says I know that this is the first time that one of our two major parties has ever nominated… — Tamara Keith Copy Share Image
I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat. I don't care if this is a great cultural event… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
What did Bush do on 9/11? He ran away and hid. Even Reagan knew more about leadership than that, and he was… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
A sex-symbol becomes a thing, I just hate being a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
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