Symbols Quotes - Page 22

• Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Mother, Writing, Thinking

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• My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.

  Caio Fonseca

  Jobs, Real, Giving

  "Caio Fonseca Comes Out of Isolation". Interview with Meghan Dailey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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• Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Go in fear of abstraction.

  Ezra Pound

  Writing, Expression, Land

  Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound (2009). “The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition”, p.9, Fordham Univ Press

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• Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become for him symbols of unadultered nature.

  Rene Dubos

  Believe, Men, Vegetables

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• This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for concepts. It denies or absorbs the transcendent vocabulary; it does not search for but establishes and imposes truth and falsehood.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Reflection, Vocabulary, Doe

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.106, Routledge

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• One thing I've learned - and I've said this to Republicans and Democrats - is, bees cannot sting and make honey at the same time. They have to make a choice. Either they are going to be a stinger or a honey-maker, and I contend that honey is a symbol of legislation and, the nuclear language used by members is the stinger, and you can't do both.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Choices, Nuclear, Honey

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• People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

  John Mahoney

  Real, America, People

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

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• Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.

  Caroline Knapp

  Self, Culture, Labels

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• In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Quality, Steel, Gone

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more.

  John Hench

  Artist, People, Feelings

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• But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.

  Daniel Clowes

  Opportunity, Use, Enjoy

  Interview with Elizabeth Benefiel, www.avclub.com. January 03, 2008.

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• A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

  Olive Schreiner

  Marriage, Beautiful, Love Is

  The Story of an African Farm pt. 2, ch. 4 (1883)

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• We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Religious, School, Affiliation

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• A map in the hands of a pilot is a testimony of a man's faith in other men; it is a symbol of confidence and trust. It is not like a printed page that bears mere words, ambiguous and artful, and whose most believing reader - even whose author, perhaps - must allow in his mind a recess for doubt. A map says to you, 'Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not.' It says, 'I am the earth in the palm of your hand. Without me, you are alone and lost.

  Beryl Markham

  Believe, Men, Hands

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.272, Open Road Media

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• The two symbols of the Republican party: an elephant and a big fat white guy who's threatened by change.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Party, Elephants, Two

  "Family Guy". www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• We Sioux spend a lot of time thinking about everyday things which in our minds are mixed up with the spiritual. We see in the world around us many symbols that teach us the meaning of life. We have a saying that the white man sees so little, he must see with only one eye. We see a lot that you no longer notice. You could notice if you wanted to, but you are usually too busy. We Indians live in a world of symbols and images where the spiritual and commonplace are one…We try to understand them not with the head but with the heart

  John Fire Lame Deer

  Spiritual, Heart, Eye

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• Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wedding, Heart, Beloved

  Khalil Gibran (2015). “A Tear And A Smile - Parables, Stories, and Poems of Khalil Gibran”, p.16, Editora Dracaena

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• When you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock symbols but forget the children's birthdays, there's a good chance you've become too wrapped up in your work.

  Peter Lynch

  Children, Investing, Chance

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• I was originally cast to be the brains of the Enterprise. Somehow I became The Chick. There's a little ugly girl inside of me going 'Yay! I'm a sex symbol!'

  Marina Sirtis

  Girl, Sex, Brain

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

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• Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Sex, Faces, Jagger

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• Symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand--an extended application of its powers.

  Dion Fortune

  Hands, Mind, Tools

  Dion Fortune (2000). “The Mystical Qabalah”, p.28, Weiser Books

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• I think I have never yet done any work with the aim of symbolizing a particular idea, but the fact that a symbol is sometimes discovered or remarked upon is valuable for me because it makes it easier to accept the inexplicable nature of my hobbies, which constantly preoccupy me.

  M. C. Escher

  Thinking, Ideas, Facts

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• To our way of thinking the Indians' symbol is the circle, the hoop. Nature wants to be round. The bodies of human beings and animals have no corners. With us, the circle stands for togetherness of people who sit with one another around the campfire, relatives and friends united in peace while the sacred pipe passes from hand to hand. To us this is beautiful and fitting, symbol and reality at the same time, expressing the harmony of life and nature.

  John Fire Lame Deer

  Beautiful, Reality, Thinking

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• It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Education, Appreciation, Mean

  "Return to Mathematical Circles". Book by Howard Eves, 1988.

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• I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me and that I've made of myself, as a sex symbol. Men expect so much, and I can't live up to it.

  Marilyn

  Sex, Men, Made

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