Symbol Quotes
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Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
Oscar Wilde
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The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.
Aristotle -
This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national symbol as the maple leaf.
Lester B. Pearson -
In art, S. Bridget is usually represented with her perpetual flame as a symbol, sometimes with a column of fire, said to have been seen above her head when she took the veil.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie.
Veronica Lake -
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 -
I'm not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?
Jaclyn Smith
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For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
Jacques Lacan -
Being a sex symbol isn't cool unless you're in love with a girl, and she calls you a sex symbol.
Shawn Mendes -
I'm not really the sex symbol type.
Kaitlin Olson -
Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
Walt Disney -
There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.
Pamela Anderson -
I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.
Yayoi Kusama
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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 Horne -
All art is at once surface and symbol.
Oscar Wilde -
I make the woman look at the camera as a symbol of all the eyes that will see the picture I am making.
Philippe Halsman -
The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.
Adolf Hitler -
Now we are proud that the government has moved from the class of the exploiters to the class of the people who were being exploited. And in the great name of the same class, I raise this nation's flag which is a strong symbol of this transfer.
Nur Muhammad Taraki -
If it's just a symbol, then to hell with it !
Flannery O'Connor
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In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself.
Vartan Gregorian -
I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either.
Antoni Tapies -
I thought I was a sexy symbol!
Gaby Hoffmann -
The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.
Vartan Gregorian