Numerical logistic is that which employs numbers; symbolic logistic that which uses symbols, as, say, the letters of the alphabet. — Francois Viete Copy Share Image
As far as I've been alive, women have always been more or less the symbol of sexuality rather than the male. We… — Raquel Welch Copy Share Image
One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
A city where the Capitol Dome, perforated like a kitchen colander, is the symbol of how secrets are kept. — Leslie Ford Copy Share Image
I'd hate to be a sex symbol. Because you're always having to live up to an image. I haven't got time to… — Julia Sawalha Copy Share Image
Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man. — Andrew Garfield Copy Share Image
As we learned from the Clinton administration and much of the media, a machine gun in the hands of a federal agent… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Mitterrand had a sense for symbols, and he was the first Socialist president since 1958. He wanted to show that there is… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
I got out my jar of ointment. I knew animators who had special containers for the ointment. Crockery, hand-blown glass, mystical symbols… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Israel's international position is very badly damaged. A country which started off as a symbol of recovery of a people who were… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
It's the circumstances of popular monarchy, the manner in which it's developed, and it is also the fault of the people who… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
There was a generation of kids who were just kind of emulating distant heroes and wearing peace symbols, and parents who were… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
Is this Prior?" "In the flesh." "Why's he bleeding?" "Because he's an idiot." Zeke offers me a black jacket with a factionless… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
A woman's long hair symbolizes that she submits to God's plan and to the family leadership of her husband. It is her… — David K. Bernard 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
Leibniz endeavored to provide an account of inference and judgment involving the mechanical play of symbols and very little else. The checklists… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from… — Oscar Wilde 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 beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Our God is abundant in love and steadfast in mercy. He saves us, not because we trust in a symbol, but because… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around. — Miriam Schapiro Copy Share Image
As far as inspiration goes, I'm constantly inspired by traveling, symbols, magic and different cultural traditions around the world. — Pamela Love Copy Share Image
There is in the Sacred Heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
News people were holding me up as a symbol of defiance to the boycott and I couldn't even run. — Gerry Lindgren Copy Share Image
I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
If the person who can effectively sanction ill-conceived wars can play the electric guitar, which is a symbol of rebellion, then that… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
I've said it before: equations are the devil's sentences. The worst one is that quadratic equation, an infernal salad of numbers, letters,… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
