Honour both spirit and form, the sentiment within as well as the symbol without. — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
“We make our own symbols, after the event has passed and begun to spoil.” — Françoise Sagan Copy Share Image
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history… — Novalis Copy Share Image
The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Migratory birds connect people, ecosystems, and nations. They are symbols of peace and of an interconnected planet. — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes. — Charles de Gaulle 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
But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“The lines and lights of the human countenance are like other symbols,–not always easy to read without a key.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
In every aspect of society, including business and anywhere that creativity can be used, we can be - or we used to… — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and,… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
“We know that children with autism like order, that they are often very visual and that they can be quite literal. They… — Adele Devine Copy Share Image
We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol… — Roger Revelle Copy Share Image
Something can be symbolic without being a mere stand-in or vessel, which just brings us away from the true mystery and dread,… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight.… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
I love tattooed women, maybe because they are uncontrollable, they are themselves to the point of drawing symbols of their power on… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
The Goat of Mendez is the god of the witches. (Mendez is another spelling of Mendes, a city of ancient Egypt where… — Kerr Cuhulain Copy Share Image
But most of us who aren't models aren't models, right? And so, you just have to get used to that and sort… — Mitchell Baker Copy Share Image
So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It… — William Morris Copy Share Image
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
Human communication, 'as the saying goes, is a clash of symbols' it covers a multitude of signs. But it is more than… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol? — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
