Emblematic Quotes

15 quotes by 14 authors

• Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race.… — Barbara Ehrenreich
• I avoided nudity unless a film couldnt be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet… — Greta Scacchi
• Would a watermelon in the midst of a chase sequence not be, in its own organic way, emblematic of our entire misunderstood enterprise? At once… — W D Richter
• The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of the… — Janet Malcolm
• Sugar crystallizes something in our American Soul. It is emblematic of all Industrial Processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White Being equated with… — Kara Walker
• Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of… — Thomas Carlyle
• Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its… — Susan Sontag
• London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about. — Alan Moore
• The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations… — Anna Quindlen
• I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent… — Joyce Carol Oates
• These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of… — Pat Conroy
• The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus that animated the… — Martin Filler
• The Internet is emblematic of an era in which what happens in Southeast Asia or southern Africa - from democratic advances to deforestation to the… — Shashi Tharoor

Who Wrote These Emblematic Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 15 Emblematic Quotes as follows:

• 1 Emblematic Quote by Thomas Carlyle
• 1 Emblematic Quote by Susan Sontag
• 1 Emblematic Quote by Alan Moore
• 1 Emblematic Quote by Anna Quindlen
• 1 Emblematic Quote by Joyce Carol Oates
• 1 Emblematic Quote by Pat Conroy
• 1 Emblematic Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Emblematic Quote by Martin Filler
• 1 Emblematic Quote by Shashi Tharoor
• 1 Emblematic Quote by Barbara Ehrenreich
• 1 Emblematic Quote by Greta Scacchi
• 1 Emblematic Quote by W D Richter
• 1 Emblematic Quote by Janet Malcolm
• 1 Emblematic Quote by Kara Walker