Symbols Quotes
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Behold the pre-prophetic symbols of the planes of Never. Behold, behold this thisness! This isness.
Sun Ra -
Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.
Raquel Welch
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The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford -
The only requirement of a symbol is that it have substance underneath: The first thing to do is to try to establish the substance. The style comes after the substance. Only then can the style help the substance, and vice versa.
Wallace Olins, CBE -
As a sex symbol, I don't know what is appealing to women. I think it's the way you treat women that makes you sexy if you like.
Ray Winstone -
The act of writing, through its peculiar alchemy whereby the fruits of the mind are transformed into symbols intelligible to all literate minds—this is the greatest magic, perhaps.
Alexander C. Irvine -
Myra Breckenridge is the antithesis of sex symbol. Shes revolutionary; shes a warrior.
Raquel Welch -
A Status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.
William Sansom
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You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.
Sofia Villani Scicolone -
In Scripture the visitation of an angel is always alarming; it has to begin by saying 'Fear not.' The Victorian angel looks as if it were going to say, 'There, there.' The literary symbols are more dangerous than sculptures and pictures because they are not so easily recognized as symbolical. Those of Dante are best. Before his angels we sink in awe.
Kathryn Lindskoog -
The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the black ovoid form is the symbol of fire, lava and destruction.
William Baziotes -
With the capacity to represent the world in signs and symbols comes the capacity to change it, which, as it happens, is also the capacity to destroy it.
Elizabeth Kolbert -
Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.
Ray Bradbury -
As far as I've been alive, women have always been more or less the symbol of sexuality rather than the male. We don't see the naked male body, as the symbol of sex.
Raquel Welch
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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 -
Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.
Kay WalkingStick -
The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the psychological difficulty of supposing that complete nonsense can be seriously promulgated and transmitted by persons who have sufficient intelligence of some kind to perform operations in differential and integral calculus.
Celia Green -
If America wants to make "made in America" a symbol of excellence and worth. They have to make everything of high quality, otherwise the best.
Raymond Loewy -
Symbols mean something and symbols often can spark hope and action in people particularly young people.
Hillary Clinton -
Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
Ezra Pound