I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can't take it too seriously. — John Travolta Copy Share Image
An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world." — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol. — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols… we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
Nature, as man has always known it, he knows no more. Since he has learned to esteem signs above symbols, to suppress… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
We think that Hillary [Clinton] will be a symbol and a reality for the women of the world, and it's very important… — Eleanor Smeal 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
After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
The fatal effects of sin can be removed only by the provision that God has made. The Israelites saved their lives by… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
So these liberals say historical research can't possibly discover the Jesus of faith, because the Jesus of faith is not rooted in… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
Grandad taught me that the alien signs and symbols of algebraic equations were not just marks on paper. They were not flat.… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. If… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Something can be symbolic without being a mere stand-in or vessel, which just brings us away from the true mystery and dread,… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight.… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
I love tattooed women, maybe because they are uncontrollable, they are themselves to the point of drawing symbols of their power on… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It annoys me that we glorify sex symbols one day and make them apologise the next. — Pooja Bhatt Copy Share Image
Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise. — Thomas C Foster Copy Share Image
The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image