Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for… — Otto Rank Copy Share Image
The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
The best engineer a few decades ago was someone who could create the most beautiful beam or structure; today it's to do… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Memory is a capricious and arbitrary creature. You never can tell what pebble she will pick up from the shore of life… — Henry Van Dyke 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
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
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
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
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
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
Reign of blows cascading down upon your shoulders Far too many men dressed up as soldiers The lamb is brought to the… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The New Religion will manifest, for instance, through organizations like Masonry. In Freemasonry is embedded the core or the secret heart of… — Benjamin Creme Copy Share Image
I am automatically suspicious of things that wave their symbolism around and do little dances and bludgeon you over the head so… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
While the 2013 color of the year, PANTONE 17-5641 Emerald, served as a symbol of growth, renewal and prosperity, Radiant Orchid reaches… — Leatrice Eiseman Copy Share Image
People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can't do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man I'm… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
There's also something about your bed; it's sort of a symbol of yourself and of your marriage, if you're married. Making your… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol,… — Kim Novak Copy Share Image
“Point being that you don't have to get too worked up about us, dear educated minds. You don't have to think of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Im a hard worker, and everything with me is, if I work hard, I should get paid for it. Everything with me,… — Birdman Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a symbol of global movies, it's not just American movies. It's become a platform and a melting pot; it's for… — Bruno Zheng Wu Copy Share Image
Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
I cannot understand any woman's wanting to be the first woman to do anything. ... It is a devastating burden and I… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Berzelius' symbols are horrifying. A young student in chemistry might as soon learn Hebrew as make himself acquainted with them... They appear… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me- and… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
“The Creator did not give humans wards. Humans created them out of unified need. Alone, the symbols had no power. It was… — Peter V. Brett Copy Share Image
Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I have nothing against the veil. And I think that, wrongly, many in the West look at the veil as a symbol… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers - weak, empty fingers. The only… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image