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The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey. — Enya
The symbolism - and the substantive significance - of planting a tree has universal power in every culture and every society on Earth, and it… — Al Gore
The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and compact language of… — James Jordan
Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail (in art) may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism. — Anton Ehrenzweig
Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism. — Sir John Woodroffe
I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol. 1), you gotta… — Bob Dylan
No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is… — Edward Sapir
If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance. — Jesse Jackson
Thus the creative genius may be at once nave and knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and to rigorous logic. He is both… — Frank X. Barron
What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe,… — James T. Walsh
There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful… — Kenzo Tange
My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine symbolism. The figures… — Lori Earley
Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective-women's bank, women's music, women's studies, women's caucus. That adjective did more than change a phrase.… — Gloria Steinem
The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know is that here… — Richard Leakey
I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such a secluded world,… — Franka Potente
Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and… — John Schlesinger
To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the… — Manly Hall
By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art.… — Peter York
As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not… — Will Durant
There's a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of magic? — Steve Jobs
The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic. — Frank X. Barron
I don't like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal. — Edward Albee
Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism." If… — Stephen Leacock
I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism. — Aaron Eckhart
Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone. — Andrew Eldritch

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