Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling,… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
It annoys me that we glorify sex symbols one day and make them apologise the next. — Pooja Bhatt Copy Share Image
The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
A candle is a living, flickering light. It can easily be blown out. As we watch a candle burn we see the… — Gunilla Brodde Norris Copy Share Image
Marriage is also a social statement, preeminently describing and defining a person's relationship and place in society. Marital status, along with what… — Evan Wolfson 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
Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
I took back a barrel of bones to New York. They were my symbols of the desert, but nothing more. I haven't… — Georgia O'Keeffe 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
[It is appropriate that the Body and Blood of Christ be truly present in this Sacrament] because of the perfection of the… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
By the time President Obama took office, Guantanamo was viewed internationally as a symbol of a counterterrorism approach that flouted our laws… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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
I'm aware that people see me as a sex symbol, and it's getting me attention. But I know I can act. — Diora Baird Copy Share Image
The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that is seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilized… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
And yes,Percy,of course they are now in our United States. Look at your symbol,the eagle of Zeus. Look at the statue of… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Our sport becomes not just what we do but an integral symbol-on all levels-of who we are. — Gloria Averbuch Copy Share Image
