Symbols Quotes - Page 31

Myra Breckenridge is the antithesis of sex symbol. Shes revolutionary; shes a warrior.

Raquel Welch

Sex, Warrior, Revolutionary

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My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

Chuck Berry

Simple, Stuff, Sound

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I try to live my life as honestly as I can, and the last thing I want is to pretend to be something I'm not. To pretend to myself I am a sex symbol would somehow be dishonest. I'd feel, in my heart, that I were behaving artificially and that's the last thing I want to do.

Cherie Lunghi

Sex, Heart, Trying

"Strictly Come Dancing exclusive: Cherie Lunghi: 'I'm too old to be a sex symbol'", www.mirror.co.uk. October 25, 2008.

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The language of images [of inner-oriented artists] does not follow a code structure that is evident and widely accepted, but is more likely to be a complex of symbols that have a profound meaning for the artists themselves.

Kenneth Coutts-Smith

Artist, Profound, Doe

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Zombies are then a symbol of our own mad urges to destroy ourselves, and a terrifying portent that we might succeed.

Kim Paffenroth

Mad, Zombie, Might

Kim Paffenroth (2006). “Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth”, p.3, Baylor University Press

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Indian spirituality, proclaimed that the true Godhead was beyond number and count; that it had many manifestations which did not exclude or repel each other but included each other, and went together in friendship; that it was approached in different ways and through many symbols; that it resided in the hearts of its devotees. Here there were no chosen people, no exclusive prophethoods, no privileged churches and fraternities and ummas. The message was subversive of all religions based on exclusive claims.

Ram Swarup

Heart, Numbers, People

Ram Swarup (1992). “Hindu View of Christianity and Islam”

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An invitation to be a bridesmaid is an honor which cannot be declined without some very good reason. Our idea of one of the better reasons is the impending arrival of a little stranger. ... any lady in this interesting condition should have the grace to refuse. We know that symbols of fertility are appropriate to the marriage ceremony, but they needn't be quite so obviously borne in on the congregation.

Alice-Leone Moats

Should Have, Ideas, Interesting

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Sculpture is a parable in three dimensions, a symbol of a spiritual experience, and a means of conveying truth by concentrating its essence into visible form. ... It must be the reflection of the artist who creates it and of the era in which he lives, not an echo or a memory of other days and other ways.

Malvina Hoffman

Spiritual, Art, Memories

Malvina Hoffman (1939). “Sculpture inside and out”

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I can't be described as a sex symbol; I think it's ridiculous.

Tom Mison

Sex, Thinking, Ridiculous

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.

Aristotle

Soul, Affection, Impression

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When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Thinking, People, Erotic

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We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it still with us.

Northrop Frye

Writing, Looks, Use

Northrop Frye (1964). “The Educated Imagination”, p.56, Indiana University Press

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How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got to find a symbol for, or maybe it was a concrete form that you have to simplify or distort to meet your ends, but that starting point must pervade the whole.

Emily Carr

Ideas, Feelings, Desire

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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.

Adam Gopnik

Drawing, Shapes, Shade

"Life Studies" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. June 27, 2011.

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The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent Americans, American institutions, and the symbols of American democracy, took heroic and noble action to ensure that the aircraft they were aboard could not be used as a weapon.

Arlen Specter

Numbers, Democracy, Weapons

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In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point and take details for granted: two trivialities omitted can add up to an impasse). The unpractised writer, even after the dawn of a conscience, gives him no such chance; before he can spot the point he has to tease his way through a maze of symbols of which not the tiniest suffix can be skipped.

John Edensor Littlewood

Two, Giving, Add

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Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled song? No wonder the bird has become the symbol for happiness. Before the farmer begins to plough the wet earth, often while snow is still on the ground, this hardy little minstrel is making himself very much at home in our orchards and gardens while waiting for a mate to arrive from the South.

Neltje Blanchan

Song, Spring, Home

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In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had before. You took the fact that the monarch was head of the Church of England to mean that the British monarchy was itself a religious or moral institution and the monarchy became a symbol of national public morality.

David Starkey

Religious, Mean, Church

"What do the cards hold for British royalty?". www.cnn.com. August 19, 1996.

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The sea was not freedom; it was a likeness of freedom, a symbol of freedom...How splendid freedom must be if a mere likeness of it, a mere reminder of it, is enough to fill a man with happiness.

Vasily Grossman

Men, Sea, Enough

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Who rules our symbols, rules us.

Alfred Korzybski

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From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.

Albert Camus

Greek, Humanity, Pandora's Box

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.153, Vintage

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Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or, worse, their pride in what they thought America had become. There was no great moral self-congratulation in having elected a president from Arkansas.

Charlie Pierce

Congratulations, Pride, Self

"Black Like Him: Obama's Narrow Path to Reelection" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. July 23, 2015.

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As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'

Maureen Dowd

Wall, Character, Blue

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I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into an escape helicopter.

Ronald Reagan

Peace, War, Climbing

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In mythology, the Medusa can petrify people with a look - which is a good thing, I think. But the Medusa is a unique symbol - something strong. It’s about going all the way.

Donatella Versace

Strong, Unique, Thinking

Interview with Nicki Minaj, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 28, 2011.

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