The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as… — Carol P. Christ Copy Share Image
I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols. — Al Nichol Copy Share Image
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
The cross of the Cruxifixion without the cross of the Resurrection is the symbol of a mutilated Christianity. — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
But then you hear that he can't hear you, you see that he can't see you. You are not here--and you haven't… — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
“It was held that the six great arts – visual art (including architecture and photography), drama, dance, music, film and literature –… — Peter Abbs Copy Share Image
Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
What was it called, that symbol of the serpent eating its own tail? It probably signified infinity, endlessness, timelessness. But for me… — Patricia Gaffney Copy Share Image
“It has been said that the first black presidency was mostly “symbolic,” a dismissal that deeply underestimates the power of symbols. Symbols… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
When you cut down to the micro-level in the West, I think we have a great deal to be worried about. And… — Michael Scheuer 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
Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own… — Slobodan Milosević Copy Share Image
If you want a symbol of Roman power and strength look no further than the Praetorian or Imperial Guard. We could take… — Stephen Nichols Copy Share Image
I remember the first time we stood in this spot. We were on the deck of a boat in the middle of… — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don’t… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Turning and climbing, the double helix evolved to an operation which had always existed as a possibility for mankind, the eating of… — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Symbols are something [the writer] uses simply as a matter of course. You might say that theses are details that, while having… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Could you please explain to me exactly what the staff is that you carry?" Cronus proudly held the symbol of his power… — Stuart Hill Copy Share Image
...I also know - and this won't alter the course of history or your personal view of me - that you will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
In terms of men I fancy, I think the actor James Franco is gorgeous. But I find it odd to be described… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as… — Garry Kasparov 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
It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride? — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or… — Edward J. Fraughton Copy Share Image
We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He didn't know what books meant to her, that books were symbols of truth and meaning ... — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
You can be a sex symbol through music or film. Hey, there are some politicians that are sex symbols. Is that something… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
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