Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there… — John Green Copy Share Image
While no Muslim worthy of his name would lose his respect for God, the Prophet Muhammad, and other symbols of Islam, he… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
He [Tinky Winky] is purple - the gay-pride color, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle - the gay pride symbol. — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols... for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I'll never accept that I'm a sex symbol. That will mean that someone is a bit too fond of himself. If it… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
The fear of death has been raised too much and set up on high, especially by preachers, like the brazen serpent in… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
Look to the temple of the Lord as the great symbol of your membership. — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
I like California because it still has the glamour and romanticism and exoticism of a very foreign place. It was the place… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Of course, since we don't see the Indian as a living figure - having turned the Indian into a kind of mascot… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it… — Jorge Luis Borges 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 anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the… — George H. W. Bush 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
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover… — Paul Rand 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
Christmas means 'giving,' and the gift without the giver is bare. Give of yourselves; give of your substance; give of your heart… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water”… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image