we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti-… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however,… — Clifford Truesdell Copy Share Image
The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Art does not imitate, but interpret. It searches out the idea lying dormant in the symbol, in order to present the symbol… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
Time is said to have only one dimension, and space to have three dimensions. ... The mathematical quaternion partakes of both these… — William Rowan Hamilton Copy Share Image
I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau, and… — George Frisbie Hoar Copy Share Image
“For some time there was a widely held notion (zealously fostered by the daily press) to the effect that the 'thinking ocean'… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
An invitation to be a bridesmaid is an honor which cannot be declined without some very good reason. Our idea of one… — Alice-Leone Moats Copy Share Image
There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
This is a concept that western culture has forgotten : everything is one! The idea of dichotomy is deeply wrong and nothing… — Tiziano Terzani Copy Share Image
It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my… — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share Image
At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Early Apple machines -- don't know how to answer what it was like since there were so few tools. Just had to… — Bob Frankston Copy Share Image
Just as music comes alive in the performance of it, the same is true of mathematics. The symbols on the page have… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
The insight at the root of artificial intelligence was that these "bits" (manipulated by computers) could just as well stand as symbols… — Daniel Crevier Copy Share Image
Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles… — Carol P. Christ Copy Share Image
A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become… — Jedediah Purdy Copy Share Image
Pictures have a lot more power than text. Text is just a bunch of little symbols. You have to actually read it… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
I've always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to see the… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
My brother often complains to me about the 'angry Asian male' in the United States. As a female, I haven't encountered this,… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. .… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I don’t mind looking like I need a good wash and a good meal... Any actor who starts taking ‘sex symbol’ seriously… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
It means we're on your side." That's what Bonnie said. I have people on my side? What side? Am I unwittingly the… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
We have the power of the Holy Cross, our holy symbol, the divine grace of Christ, only as long as we have… — Elder Paisios of Mount Athos Copy Share Image
The demand that Islam makes of women is to not attract attention to yourself, and if you are in a secular society,… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep,… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The Christian Bible is a symbolic book, not a literal one. The one Christians know as Jesus was actually a symbol for… — David Icke Copy Share Image
The shamrock is a religious symbol. St. Patrick said the leaves represented the trinity: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
We have, for generations, been trying to be more inclusive of the word Southern. And a symbol like the confederate flag indicates… — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
I base everything on my own life experiences as a female. I start from there, and then I look for characters and… — Anna Biller Copy Share Image
