Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Glenn

Steamboat, the bucking horse, is the symbol for our state,

I think Mardi Gras is a symbol that we're down but not out.

Helen is a symbol of the tenacity of our people.

Paul Tagliabue

He was mythic. He symbolizes football, and, more importantly, he symbolizes leadership.

Alfred Korzybski

Who rules our symbols, rules us.

A. E. Waite

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

Winston Scott

This symbolizes a whole new way of doing business.

David Mamet

The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

Allen Ginsberg

Things are symbols of themselves.

Edward Sapir

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 adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.

Arthur C. Clarke

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Diane von Furstenberg

For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life.

John Schlesinger

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 thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

The Weeknd

I usually dont like to spoon feed my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

Bill Schneider

Now I think New York is symbolic of the nation's division.

Roman Jakobson

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Shirin Neshat

Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.

Stephen King

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

Sigmund Freud

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.

We wanted it to be local. We wanted it to be symbolic of our own difficulties in life.

These 10,000 are an extraordinary symbol of our country's will to be there, to participate in these Olympics.

It would be a symbolic contribution, not compensation.

Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!

Philippe Starck

Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.

Rene Magritte

People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.

W. H. Auden

What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.

Hal Borland

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 sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both love and happiness soon thereafter. So to me [the May apple] is the mandrake, the love symbol, of the old dealers in plant restoratives.

Jesse Jackson

If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.

Christopher Lasch

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

Gene Tierney

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

George Edward Woodberry

I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.