Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
I’m always surprised when writers say they don’t believe in a god or religion but they believe in creating a world on… — Shane Jones Copy Share Image
The sea was not freedom; it was a likeness of freedom, a symbol of freedom...How splendid freedom must be if a mere… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can… — Minor White Copy Share Image
In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I don't make films that are easy to market, unfortunately. I think that 'Pi' was the easiest one, because we had that… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
Government sponsorship of religious activity, including prayer services, sacred symbols, religious festivals, and the like, tends to secularize the religious activity rather… — John M Swomley Copy Share Image
Why does philosophy use concepts and why does faith use symbols if both try to express the same ultimate? The answer, of… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels,… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Beloved, whatever we are gripping to bring us satisfaction is a lie-unless it is Christ. He is the Truth that sets us… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“Every view which interprets the symbolic expression as an analogous or abbreviated expression of a known thing is semiotic. A view which… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
While it is important to maintain a balanced approach to solving our nation's energy problems, we must commit ourselves to recognize some… — Ken Salazar Copy Share Image
Every time I see a coin on the street, I stop, pick it up, put it into my pocket, and say out… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a… — Ambrose Bierce 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
I've begun to recognize myself as a Catholic writer because my whole notion of the image, of symbol, of art and what… — Joyelle McSweeney Copy Share Image
I would say that if something has an aesthetic value and it is pleasing to watch or to wear, it may in… — Emilio Pucci Copy Share Image
Every science that has thriven has thriven upon its own symbols: logic, the only science which is admitted to have made no… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Celtic, like Barcelona, are more than a football club. Our clubs are a symbol of a culture and community that has not… — Xavi Copy Share Image
Written symbols are even more artificial or conventional than spoken; they cannot be picked up in accidental intercourse with others. In addition,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I'm not going to allow anybody to hold a badge up over me or a cross or any other power symbol and… — Ice T Copy Share Image
I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really… — Laura Prepon Copy Share Image
Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
It really is worth the trouble to invent a new symbol if we can thus remove not a few logical difficulties and… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
“They were in love! Carla wore her hair up and Andrew saw everything as a sign. They spent an entire afternoon sitting… — Amelia Gray Copy Share Image
Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
That small word "Force," they make a barber's block, Ready to put on Meanings most strange and various, fit to shock Pupils… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The practical man demands an appearance of reality at least. Always dealing in the concrete, he regards mathematical terms not as symbols… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
In early historical civilization, lunar symbols wove together three major metaphorical concepts. The first is the idea of fertility. The moon controls… — Layne Redmond Copy Share Image
I think jeans have gotten away from the original meaning, that symbol of freedom; they've gone gimmicky and turned into a status… — Johan Lindeberg Copy Share Image
