Best Symbolism Sayings
79 Symbolism quotes by 74 unique authors
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The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the…
— David Icke
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When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.
— Gene Tierney
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I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.
— George Edward Woodberry
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This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight…
— Dave Eggers
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It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Who cares what the color means? How do you know what he meant to say? I mean, did he leave another book called "Symbolism in…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from this was not…
— Stephen Hawking
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Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She captured words in…
— Haruki Murakami
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The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death.…
— Mary Midgley
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Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Nobody believes that the man who says, 'Look, lady, you wanted equality,' to explain why he won't give up his seat to a pregnant woman…
— Judith Martin
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Halt regarded him. He loved Horace like a younger brother. Even like a second son, after Will. He admired his skill with a sword and…
— John Flanagan
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Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you had the right…
— Philip Pullman
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Scapegoating worked in practice while it still had religious powers behind it. You loaded the sins of the city on to the goat’s back and…
— J M Coetzee
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Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain for a few…
— Margaret Mitchell
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I suppose even Dictators have their chummy moments, when they put their feet up and relax with the boys, but it was plain from the…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.
— Stephen King
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In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the…
— Hal Borland
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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of…
— Albert Pike
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The language of clothing is high symbolism and we all, in moments where we need to know this, realize it.
— Judith Martin
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Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same time,…
— Linn Ullmann
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I have been talking nonstop about the symbolism of an edible landscape at the White House. I think it says everything about stewardship of the…
— Alice Waters
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I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism.
— Chino Moreno
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I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
— Ira Glass
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I support mosques, obviously. We need churches, temples, mosques. Whatever people use to speak with their god or to receive spiritual inspiration is good for…
— Peter T. King
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