Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
More of the symbols are stock (does [Bob] Dylan really have hogs lying out in the mud somewhere? I doubt it), but… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation's most important purpose: to fulfill the individual - his freedom, his… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
To me, locs are a symbol of strength and beauty, almost like a lion's mane. — Zendaya Copy Share Image
The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action. — Allen Newell Copy Share Image
Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Tree of Liberty: A tree set up by the people, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty.… — E. Cobham Brewer Copy Share Image
Life compulsively dangled the possibility of life. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and… — Glen Duncan 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
We have so much, yet many Americans feel dissatisfied. Somehow the full table, symbol of abundance to the pilgrims, is not enough.… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
Water can be a symbol of purification, to stand naked before someone a sign of truth, of nothing to hide. - Nick… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that… — George Johnson Copy Share Image
For me, I want a president who is more than a symbol, someone who has ideas that I align with. — Emily Ratajkowski Copy Share Image
The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call the terminal moraine of shattered… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a symbol of global movies, it's not just American movies. It's become a platform and a melting pot; it's for… — Bruno Zheng Wu Copy Share Image
Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“There are few things more powerful than a name. A single phrase that somehow becomes a symbol for an entire existence.” — Lance Conrad Copy Share Image
You may not think I'm a sex symbol, but I became a father at the age of 48. Now young people think… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image