Perhaps lovers aren't supposed to look down at the ground. That kind of story is told in symbols-and earth represents reality, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because drumming was recognized as an ancient source and symbol of the power of female technicians of the sacred, drumming was banned.… — Layne Redmond Copy Share Image
Name me any liquid — except our own blood — that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Jesus becomes the captive of the hysterically religious, the chronically fearful, the insecure and even the neurotic among us, or he becomes… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Now each one of us, black or white, is a symbol. The war is out in the open and the skin color… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
No throne exists that has a right to exist, and no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures… — Carol P. Christ Copy Share Image
The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his… — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
We say that if a temple, or a symbol, or an image helps you to realize the Divine within, you are welcome… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
While patriotism is often lauded as an unquestionable value, the status of patriotism is a problem for many thoughtful people. It is… — Stephen Nathanson Copy Share Image
Do you understand any of this?" he said, pointing to the lines and symbols that covered the massive screens. "Some people understand… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
To me there is nothing more sacred than love and laughter, and there is nothing more prayerful than playfulness. When you are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A person is either himself or not himself; is either rooted in his existence or is a fabrication; has either found his… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I am amazed that Congressmen can pass a bill imposing severe penalties on anyone who burns the American flag, whereas they are… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
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Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images… — John Hench Copy Share Image
In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
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You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
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For the jihadists, Muslim women who embrace Western mores, and wear tight jeans or mini skirts, are hated symbols of corruption that… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers, nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems, but a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music,… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
[T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
I have always considered my career self and my personal self as two different and separate people. There's a Jayne Mansfield at… — Jayne Mansfield Copy Share Image
I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. The oak is especially so… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro' was being 'Modern'. And being an 'New Negro' meant, largely, not being… — Nathan Huggins Copy Share Image
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