Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Allen Ginsberg

Things are symbols of themselves.

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.

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.

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.

Helen is a symbol of the tenacity of our people.

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

Winston Scott

This symbolizes a whole new way of doing business.

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.

Edward Albee

I don't like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All things are symbols.

John McCain

Does it make all the difference in the world? No. But there's a great deal of symbolism associated with whether we're going to add $24 billion to the debt in unwanted and unnecessary pork-barrel projects.

Paul Tagliabue

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

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.

Bill Schneider

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

It would be a symbolic contribution, not compensation.

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

Stephanie Bennett

It was a symbolic need for us to be out front, because it was our kid,

Maajid Nawaz

The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.

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

Philippe Starck

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

Joseph Campbell

The dance is the highest symbol of life itself.

Haruki Murakami

I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.

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.

Paul Emsley

I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.