“We make our own symbols, after the event has passed and begun to spoil.” — Françoise Sagan 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
“The absence of symbols in our life debases it as much as any government can...” — Josephin Peladan Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the sexiness, the sex symbol, it's not a consideration. — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. — Shunryu Suzuki 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
When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that… — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Although it is a symbol of life, the female body is unfortunately not rarely attacked and disfigured, even by those who should… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings… — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence. — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted,… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
It is well to remember that the office of Chief Executive is in part a symbol of the nation and that leaders… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Freemasonry is a science of symbols, in which, by their proper study, a search is instituted after truth, that truth consisting in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hermeticism is the science of nature hidden in the hieroglyphics and symbols of the ancient world. It is the search for the… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Many now veer away from the time-honored use of the term Father as applied to the Christian God ... This difficulty rests… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
What's great about symbols, what a writer can do with them is provide a really vivid, interesting image, and the reader will… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I think of what's happening in Detroit as part of something that's much bigger. Most people think of the decline of the… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Every age has its dreams, its symbols of romance. Past generations were moved by the graceful power of the great windjammers, by… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
I want to suggest to you that the day of the artists has come. That there are things about symbols and the… — Graham Cray Copy Share Image
The nation, like the church, has its visible symbols and insignia, its parchments engrossed with the revealed word, its dogmas, hymns, liturgy,… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance. — Michael J. Schmoker 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
The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
To me, there's two symbols for Team U.S.A.: the national anthem and the American flag. — Mike Schultz Copy Share Image
I was originally cast to be the brains of the Enterprise. Somehow I became The Chick. There's a little ugly girl inside… — Marina Sirtis Copy Share Image
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