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
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
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
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
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
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 Christos-image is most difficult to disentangle from its art-craft junk-shop paint-and-plaster medieval jumble of pain-worship and death-symbol. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
The Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins. — Pope Francis 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
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
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
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
America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The seed, swollen with moisture, burst asunder its covering of soil and out peers the blade of wheat, full of symbols. So… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
Picture a place called the Karma Kafe and it'll save me the bother of describing it. There was nothing in it you… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain;… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
If the Americans, in addition to the eagle and the Stars and Stripes and the more unofficial symbols of bison, moose and… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
It’s, it’s like I’m in the fourth dimension and somebody is asking me to describe it verbally and that’s what the fourth… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I think of mythology as a function of biology; the energies of the body are the energies that move the imagination. These… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
If I am a sex symbol, it's certainly not in the classic sense. I'm opposed to the traditional image of a woman's… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will… — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world. — Virginia Foxx Copy Share Image
It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and… — Thomas Pynchon 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
Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
I don't like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The teachings of Jesus begin in story and end in symbol - they begin in parable and end in us. These are… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways Berlin is a symbol for me of Facebook's mission: bringing people together, connecting people and breaking down… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970. — Jonathan Franzen 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
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
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
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
