Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Symbols give us our identity, our self image, our way of explaining ourselves to ourselves and to others. Symbols in turn determine… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
The symbol in Chinese for crisis is made up of two ideographs: one means danger, the other means opportunity. This symbol is… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat.… — Naomi Wolf 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
I think America the symbol and America the notion are still very different from America the nation. What's touching and almost regenerative… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone.… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
Of course I'm going to be labeled as a sex symbol. I made my bed, and I'm sleeping in it. — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
We have focused on the miracle-thing and I think we often overlook the message of Hanukkah. To me, the core of the… — Ralph Levy Copy Share Image
The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
It thunders, howls, roars, hisses, whistles, blusters, hums, growls, rumbles, squeaks, groans, sings, crackles, cracks, rattles, flickers, clicks, snarls, tumbles, whimpers, whines,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The sex symbol thing's a little bit different for me. Usually, like whenever there's a picture of me, there's always this set… — Mitchell Baker Copy Share Image
All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
It [9/11 event] was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers, nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems, but a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
the writer must resist this temptation [to quote] and do his best with his own tools. It would be most convenient for… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
When you think of the KKK, they actually have as their emblem a fiery cross. And they don't see any contradiction between… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Running, close companion to death, summons us to the most vivid acts of life. Our ancestors (we have forgotten) ran for food… — George Leonard Copy Share Image