The art of writing is not, as many seem to imagine, the art of bringing fine phrases into rhythmical order, but the… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
La Scala is easily one of the top 10 symbols of Italy's cultural excellence. That makes it vital to our global image.… — Diego Della Valle Copy Share Image
Perhaps one feels more pain when parents are there. It's like when you're hungry, you know, it's worse to get a symbol… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
As many know, the Chinese expression for "crisis" consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for "danger,"… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“Our problem today is that we no longer believe in things but in symbols, hence our life has passed over into these… — David R. Loy Copy Share Image
HOLLY TREE (Ilex aquifolium) is a symbol of good will and is associated with sun gods. In Rome the holly was sacred… — Raven Grimassi Copy Share Image
Meditation is a refocusing on symbols. It's not emptiness. We are using symbols, doorways to step from one world to another, from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads' fire crackling… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
“We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by descriptive means. I prefer to express myself… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The monogram of our national initials, which is the symbol for our monetary unit, the dollar, is almost as frequently conjoined to… — Henry R. Towne Copy Share Image
That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Let me go out on a limb and suggest that those who see hints of a new class ideology developing around information… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
One of the things that you come pretty early on to understand in this job, and you start figuring out even during… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“The heart of a city Is the soul of a man It winds like a river Through the heart of the land… — janis ian Copy Share Image
The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed, Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are studying the… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
I'm a big soccer fanatic, and although I support a team called Tottenham Hotspur in London - I love that team, I… — Adam Richman Copy Share Image
Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law... while the laws of the Law, the great circling… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of… — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
Once the rudiments of loyalty are in place, the ambitious have been inclined to work with them to promote their own political… — Michael Waller Copy Share Image
The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man's interest… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
It's hilarious to be considered a sex symbol. In school I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into. Being… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
Meditate upon my counsels; love them; follow them; To the divine virtues will they know how to lead thee. I swear it… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Reading in the third millennium B.C. may therefore have been a matter of hearing the cuneiform, that is, hallucinating the speech from… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
In Islamic theology, the phallic symbol is very important. Your biggest phallic symbol is New York City and your tallest building will… — Isser Harel Copy Share Image
It's been interesting to look back on those works [I've done previously] and see all the things that Beyoncé has done and… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
The desert ... may serve better as the backdrop for the problematic relationship between man and the environment. The human struggle, the… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
A lot of people are very frustrated. On the outside I am a woman, but how much am I also a man… — Pernille Fischer Christensen Copy Share Image
Trees are extraordinary revelations of the spirit in nature. And, given the multitude of ways that trees and their products benefit and… — Steven Clark Rockefeller Copy Share Image