What happens whenever we convert a writer into a symbol is that we lose the writer himself in all his indefeasible singularity,… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross. — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I make the woman look at the camera as a symbol of all the eyes that will see the picture I am… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that is seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilized… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I love tunnels. They 're the symbol of hope: sometime it will be bright again. If by chance it is not night. — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is… — Jessica Helfand Copy Share Image
In Egypt the staff was rendered as a shepherd's crook that was a symbol for the pharaohs, the Druids of Egypt. The… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We Sioux spend a lot of time thinking about everyday things which in our minds are mixed up with the spiritual. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either… — Peter Zumthor 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
Since the date, 1776, is placed on the bottom course of the pyramid [on the Great Seal], and since the number 13… — Paul Foster Case 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
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
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
No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
I'm aware that people see me as a sex symbol, and it's getting me attention. But I know I can act. — Diora Baird Copy Share Image
There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection! — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
the Coleman lantern is the symbol of the camping craze that is currently sweeping America, with its unholy white light burning in… — Richard Brautigan 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
The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation. — Friedrich Ebert Copy Share Image
When you can't see any reason for loving a person, you must be loving him as a symbol of something, don't you… — Kylie Tennant Copy Share Image
Signs are taken for wonders. / 'We would see a sign!' / The word within a word, unable to speak a word,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image