While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can… — Minor White Copy Share Image
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The sea was not freedom; it was a likeness of freedom, a symbol of freedom...How splendid freedom must be if a mere… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
I’m always surprised when writers say they don’t believe in a god or religion but they believe in creating a world on… — Shane Jones Copy Share Image
Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories, hopes - the invisible… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I look in the mirror and I don't see a sex symbol. I just see a guy who looks like he's been… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
I am proud that for the first time in the history of Afghanistan, I am raising the flag of such a people,… — Nur Muhammad Taraki Copy Share Image
For most of the world, there's no greater symbol of America than the Statue of Liberty. It has been an inspiration to… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
Marriage is also a social statement, preeminently describing and defining a person's relationship and place in society. Marital status, along with what… — Evan Wolfson Copy Share Image
Two-thirds of the Iranian people would like to be reconciled with the West. They don't like the fanaticism of the governing religious… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
In abbreviated form, by a kind of symbol, only the most essential information is passed on and passed on only to those… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines. Spaces within… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call the terminal moraine of shattered… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
I do want an expensive honeymoon. Not because I'm extravagant, but because a honeymoon is a solemn, important thing ... a symbol.… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
If there is a lesson in our story it is that the manipulation, according to strictly self-consistent rules, of a set of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The privilege against self-incrimination is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to make himself civilized... The Fifth is a lone… — Erwin Griswold Copy Share Image
“We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious.… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialistic objects on which America is built… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
The symbol of all relationships among such men, the moral symbol of respect for human beings, is the trader. We, who live… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar… — William H. Hunt Copy Share Image
Death is not an ending, but a symbol of movement along the path upon which we are all traveling. As it may… — John Denver Copy Share Image
Everyone's looking for the perfect teacher, but although their teachings might be divine, teachers are all too human, and that's something people… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
“Ancient documents described the symbol as an ambigram—ambi meaning “both”—signifying it was legible both ways. And although ambigrams were common in symbology—… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
...What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature." It has become… — Lian Hearn Copy Share Image
In most places, when people hear about or see something that is a symbol or representation or evidence of slavery or the… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Secondly, figures, the symbols of numerical magnitude, are frequently also the symbols of operations, as when they are the indices of powers.… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
The importance of immobility and silence to photographic authority, the nonfilmic nature of this authority, leads me to some remarks on the… — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
