quotes about Symbols
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A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.
-- Albert Camus -
I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven,
-- Anselm Kiefer -
The soul ... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.
-- Anya Seton -
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The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.
-- Barbara Mikulski -
A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.
-- Charles Jencks -
For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life.
-- Diane von Furstenberg -
But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
-- Ernest Holmes -
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The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.
-- Felix Frankfurter -
Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.
-- Friedrich Ebert -
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.
-- Hans Arp -
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If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.
-- Herbert Read -
I still don't buy the idea that I'm a 'sex symbol.'
-- Hope Solo -
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
-- Igor Stravinsky -
What's wrong with shoes? I collected them because it was like a symbol of thanksgiving and love?
-- Imelda Marcos -
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Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol
-- Isaac Mizrahi -
For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
-- Jacques Lacan -
Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed
-- Jay McInerneySource : Jay McInerney (2014). “Bright Lights, Big City”, p.54, A&C Black
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I would never know how to sell myself as a sex symbol. That's not how I'm programmed.
-- Jude Law -
I'm not really the sex symbol type.
-- Kaitlin OlsonSource : "It's Always Sunny with Kaitlin Olson". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. October 8, 2008.
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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.
-- Lena HorneSource : "Lena Horne obituary" by John Fordham, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2010.
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Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
-- Margot AsquithSource : Margot Asquith (1933). “More Memories”
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A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
-- Marilyn Monroe -
After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.
-- Mario Benedetti -
Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol.
-- Mark TobeySource : Bahai lecture, New York; as quoted in "Abstract Expressionist Painting in America", W.C. Seitz, 1983, p. 10, October 30, 1951.
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The reality comes first, and the symbol comes after. I see these things, and suddenly they become symbolic of life.
-- Mary Pratt -
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Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.
-- Michael Medved -
My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.
-- Paul Getty -
Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.
-- Philippe StarckSource : New York Magazine Vol. 19, October 06, 1986.
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Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.
-- Raquel Welch -
Great are the symbols of Being, But that which is symboled is greater; Vast the create and beheld, But vaster the Inward Creator.
-- Richard RealfSource : Richard Realf, “Indirection”
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If ever I were to have a symbol attributed to me, it would be a heart, the outline!
-- Rudolph Valentino -
Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation
-- S. I. Hayakawa -
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Numbers have life; they’re not just symbols on paper.
-- Shakuntala Devi -
Behold the pre-prophetic symbols of the planes of Never. Behold, behold this thisness! This isness.
-- Sun Ra -
The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.
-- Thomas Carlyle -
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I will repeat again that females are the symbols of nonviolence. Another thing I would say is that a female is more compromising. A female can talk with anyone easily.
-- Yingluck Shinawatra -
If it's just a symbol, then to hell with it !
-- Flannery O'Connor -
Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.
-- Flannery O'Connor -
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My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.
-- Adolph Gottlieb -
Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.
-- Thomas C Foster