Comedian Quote by George Carlin

“We all have the same Rislampa/Har paper lamps made from wire and environmentally friendly unbleached paper. Mine are confetti.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970.

— Jonathan Franzen

Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The deterioration of symbols is natural. They wear out, needing to be reclaimed, recreated; returned to the spirit.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I trust the symbol that is arrived at in the making of the painting. Meaningful symbols aren't invented as such, they are made or…

— Richard Diebenkorn

If hearts really did break, every time we fell from love, I’d be able to offer you confetti by now. But hearts don’t break…

— Buddy Wakefield

It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.

— Carole Wilkinson

The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

— Omar Khayyam

What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication, compared with…

— Charles Lamb

The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.

— Bruce Lee

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science . And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one could easily…

— Simone Weil