Symbols Quotes - Page 11

• I live opposite an amazing wood in London, and you can usually find me sitting there for hours and sketching. Sometimes the icon or symbol leads me to the face, but usually it's the other way around.

  Noma Bar

  Opposites, Icons, Sketching

  Interview with Drew Dernavich, www.newyorker.com. September 17, 2008.

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• In every aspect of society, including business and anywhere that creativity can be used, we can be - or we used to be, anyway - the most innovative country, because we weren't restricted by artificial limitations. We are made to be wild, free, and creative, and this clearly was a symbol of that kind of energy in America.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Country, Creativity, America

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have always considered my career self and my personal self as two different and separate people. There's a Jayne Mansfield at home, a wife and devoted mother, and there's Jayne the sex symbol, which is my career. I have always kept them completely apart and separate.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Mother, Sex, Home

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'd like ten more babies and ten more chihuahuas and a few Academy Awards. Meanwhile, I enjoy being a sex symbol and making people happy.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Baby, Sex, Awards

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialistic objects on which America is built today. It is a projection of everything that can be bought and sold, and practical but impermanent symbols that sustain us.

  Andy Warhol

  America, Today, Materialistic

  Andy Warhol, Annette Michelson, B. H. D. Buchloh (2001). “Andy Warhol”, p.37, MIT Press

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• An idea is a light turned on in a man's soul. Comic-strip artists are in the habit of representing it by means of a light bulb flashing on, above the head of a character who has suddenly grasped an idea. In simple, primitive terms, this is an appropriate symbol.

  Ayn Rand

  Character, Mean, Simple

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.289, Penguin

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• The mind reproduces itself by transmitting its symbols to other intermediaries, human and mechanical, than the particular brain that first assembled them.

  Lewis Mumford

  Brain, Mind, Firsts

  Lewis Mumford (1967). “The Myth of the Machine: Technics and human development”, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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• We say that if a temple, or a symbol, or an image helps you to realize the Divine within, you are welcome to it. Have two hundred images if you like. If certain forms and formulas help you to realize the Divine, God speed you; have, by all means, whatever forms, temples, whatever ceremonies you want to bring you nearer to God. But do not quarrel about them; the moment you quarrel, you are not going Godward, you are going backward towards the brutes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, Two, Want

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• There are names like Savoy Hotel, Caruso, Shangri-La, Pavlove, Mount Everest and the Treorchy Male Choir that just hang up there as peaks of excellence - perfect things that we simply take for granted as symbols of greatness. So imagine how delighted and honoured I am to join with all the other small peaks in congratulating the Choir of Choirs on its anniversary. In admiration, since I was a boy!

  Ron Moody

  Greatness, Boys, Names

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• Nature, as man has always known it, he knows no more. Since he has learned to esteem signs above symbols, to suppress his emotional reactions in favor of practical ones and make use of nature instead of holding so much of it sacred, he has altered the face, if not the heart, of reality.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Heart, Reality, Men

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• The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is the most characteristic mental trait of mankind. It issues in an unconscious, spontaneous process of abstraction, which goes on all the time in the human mind: a process of recognizing the concept in any configuration given to experience, and forming a conception accordingly. That is the real sense of Aristotle's definition of Man as "the rational animal".

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Real, Animal, Men

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• Indeed we may consider the engine as the material and mechanical representative of analysis, and that our actual working powers in this department of human study will be enabled more effectually than heretofore to keep pace with our theoretical knowledge of its principles and laws, through the complete control which the engine gives us over the executive manipulation of algebraical and numerical symbols.

  Ada Lovelace

  Law, Giving, Principles

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• The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine talents not often found together. He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher - in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light ofthe past for the purposes of the future

  John Maynard Keynes

  Past, Light, Together

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography”

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• The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man's interest to prevent one from taking advantage of the other.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Men, Justice, Lines

  Reinhold Niebuhr (1964). “The Nature and Destiny of Man: Human destiny”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language.

  Manly Hall

  Men, Symbolism, Language

  Manly P. Hall (2010). “The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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• The Wall was the actual symbol of a defeat, of inferiority.

  Stefan Heym

  Wall, Inferiority, Defeat

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• Perhaps one feels more pain when parents are there. It's like when you're hungry, you know, it's worse to get a symbol of a cheeseburger than no cheeseburger at all. It doesn't do you any good, you know.

  Yoko Ono

  Pain, Parent, Hungry

  "The Lost John Lennon Interview". Interview with Tariq Ali, Robin Blackburn, www.counterpunch.org. December 8, 2005.

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• Wherever wolves run free, indigenous cultures have revered them as symbols of loyalty, free will, fearlessness and unity. But wolves haven't had it easy in North America, where negative myths prevail. Fear-based stereotypes and use of public lands for cattle ranching have resulted in Mother Nature's dogs being aggressively persecuted to the point of near extinction.

  Zoe Helene

  Loyalty, Mother, Running

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• Patrick Stewart was the first internet sex symbol without hair but pileggi always thought it was him.

  David Duchovny

  Sex, Hair, Firsts

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• It drives on with a courage which is stronger than the storm. It drives on with a mercy which does not quail in the presence of death. It drives on as proof, a symbol, a testimony that man is created in the image of God and that valour and virtue have not perished in the British race.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Race, Storm

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• Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared with the artistic and skillful portraits made in later days... Here was a photograph that at one time had been the last word, a very modern portrait... Today it is just a part of cultural history. The small yellowed surface has acquired depth, an admonishing perspective. We hold in our hand a symbol of the structure and ideology of an epoch.

  Isak Dinesen

  Wall, Simple, Hands

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• Burt Reynolds, great sex symbol of the movies, who said, I owe it all to one great part. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Sex, Dinner, Said

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• You may not think I'm a sex symbol, but I became a father at the age of 48. Now young people think of me as a mini-folk hero because it's difficult for them to believe a man of my age is sexually active.

  Bob Newhart

  Sex, Father, Hero

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Dream, Memorial, President

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• In movies, I hope women aren't always portrayed as sex symbols. People like Drew Barrymore are paving the way for girls my age. Hopefully I can pave the way for young actresses, too.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Girl, Sex, People

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