We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
La Scala is easily one of the top 10 symbols of Italy's cultural excellence. That makes it vital to our global image.… — Diego Della Valle Copy Share Image
The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
What did Bush do on 9/11? He ran away and hid. Even Reagan knew more about leadership than that, and he was… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat. I don't care if this is a great cultural event… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
A sex-symbol becomes a thing, I just hate being a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
I am deeply saddened by the loss of my children's grandfather and my very dear friend. I loved big John with all… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
The position of the planetary bodies at the moment of birth is a musical score done in planetary symbols of the heavenly… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake. The duty of… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle: and patriotism… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
It is organized as a fellowship of men, a system of morals, a philosophy taught by degrees through the use of symbol,… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
I never feel like I am "using" a voice, rather I am listening to a voice and recording it as faithfully as… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
There are names like Savoy Hotel, Caruso, Shangri-La, Pavlove, Mount Everest and the Treorchy Male Choir that just hang up there as… — Ron Moody Copy Share Image
If you look at the ox-herding pictures - specifically the newer set of ten pictures rather than the older set of eight… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
[Pope Francis] has done this not through angry speeches, but through the powerful symbols and examples of embracing a badly deformed man,… — John I. Jenkins Copy Share Image
A knife can be a symbol, but it also better be able to cut string. And if it represent cutting free, cutting… — Ansen Dibell Copy Share Image
The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
I've heard that phallic symbol argument before, and always from ineffectual people driven to make everyone else as helpless as they are.… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation.… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols,… — Richard Hatch Copy Share Image
There is no greater symbol of the artistic spirit of Scotland than the Mackintosh building. But more than that it is a… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I believe the reason we sleep is not just to allow our body to rest but that it is to allow this… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
I believe that dance is the oldest, noblest and most cogent of the arts. I believe that dance is the most perfect… — Ted Shawn Copy Share Image
I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
Im a person of faith, and the language that I use to define my faith, the symbols and metaphors that I rely… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we… — Lynn Andrews Copy Share Image
Regarding language as an apparatus of symbols for the conveyance of thought, we may say that, as in a mechanical apparatus, the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present… — Hart Crane Copy Share Image
Now I'm a symbol of what to be and how hard to work. I have heads of major labels say, "I wish… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
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