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I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.
If ever I were to have a symbol attributed to me, it would be a heart, the outline!
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.
The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.
I would never know how to sell myself as a sex symbol. That's not how I'm programmed.
Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.
He didn't know what books meant to her, that books were symbols of truth and meaning.
To me, there's two symbols for Team U.S.A.: the national anthem and the American flag.
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.
A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.
When I think of sex symbols, I think of posters my two sisters had on their bedroom walls.
It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.
There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.
The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.
Behold the pre-prophetic symbols of the planes of Never. Behold, behold this thisness! This isness.
Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers.
Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.
The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.
You can have Asians being leading men that are sex symbols. You can have leading women powering through.
The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.
Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.
Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.
My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
Migratory birds connect people, ecosystems, and nations. They are symbols of peace and of an interconnected planet.
The reality comes first, and the symbol comes after. I see these things, and suddenly they become symbolic of life.
A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
We don't need flashy cars, impressive titles, uniforms, or other status symbols. We rely on our strength and our will!
From America's schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments.
Great are the symbols of Being, But that which is symboled is greater; Vast the create and beheld, But vaster the Inward Creator.
Men can be sex symbols and also earn respect for their professional accomplishments, and the same standard should apply to women.
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.
When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.
Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language.
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.