Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're extremely pleased. It's about symbolic recognition of the loss of languages and cultures.

We stopped being able to talk to each other. And we found ourselves onstage all playing a different song at the same time. It was pretty pathetic and felt like it was just symbolic of where we were at. We ended up getting into this terrible violent fight and our tour manager had to put us in different corners just to break it up.

Martin Jacques

The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous.

By a combination of formal training and self study, the latter continuing systematically well into the 1940s, I was able to gain a broad base of knowledge in economics and political science, together with reasonable skills in advanced mathematics, symbolic logic, and mathematical statistics.

Eric Ries

When it comes to meritocracy and diversity, the symbolic is real. And that means that simple actions that reduce bias, such as blind resume or application screening, are a double win: they reduce implicit bias and they help communicate our commitment to meritocracy.

Charles Eastman

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

Joseph Beuys

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.

Thomas E. Mann

Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress.

The outer level is symbolic and represents the world in its divine form and the inner level represents a map where the mind is transformed into an enlightened mind. The secret level represents the balance of mind and body and the energies surrounding them.

Boris Pasternak

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

Kate Forsyth

Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.

Kevin Mitnick

I think a cyber-terrorism attack is overblown, though the threat exists. I think al Qaeda and other groups are more interested in symbolic terrorism, like what they did to the World Trade Center - suicide bombers or something that really has an effect and is meaningful to people.

Dan Brown

For me, writing is a discipline, much like playing a musical instrument. By making writing my first order of business every day, I am giving it enormous symbolic importance in my life, which helps keep me motivated.

If the symbolic industry of the United States collapses, it may adversely affect Japan-U.S. relations by stirring up nationalist sentiment there.

Mark Zandi

if the financial markets were reeling and the images from the Gulf were getting worse instead of better, if energy prices were rising instead of falling. But given the economic data and financial markets, there's no reason to make a symbolic move.

If they win it, it's a huge symbolic victory. If they lose it, they can say they couldn't have won it anyway.

Dan Brown

I found I liked working at that hour, and though I no longer teach, I have remained faithful to that routine. By making writing my first order of business every day, I am giving it enormous symbolic importance in my life, which helps keep me motivated.

Kristan Higgins

My love of cleaning is symbolic of my desire to rule the world... I always wear a seat belt because I enjoy being alive... and I like having two eyes, so yes to the safety goggles, too!

Humans are creatures of waste, so it is our duty to minimize our consumption and to ensure that we, as individuals are worthy of the waste that is created. A dull whining paranoiac who is a model of thrift but of little else is more symbolic of waste than an interesting and creative materialist.

Someone lost an occasion to celebrate with us. I don't feel you should use such a symbolic occasion in this way.

I think it is symbolic of solidarity and what Powder Ridge means to our community. Once in a while in your life, you are given the opportunity to do something to help out someone else and do the right thing.

I think the mayor meant well and wanted to do a symbolic gesture in bringing down a physical structure. But in so doing, he may have destroyed evidence that may be crucial in the ongoing investigation of the police.

I think the prosecution was looking for a symbolic victory and they got it.

Claes Oldenburg

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.

David Trimble

It is not just a question of a symbolic action with regard to handing in some weapons,

Kazuo Ishiguro

I went many years without even associating Nagasaki with the atomic bomb. Then in the 1980s, when there was a new concern about CND and so on, Nagasaki took on this symbolic value. I felt my Nagasaki had been appropriated. It was suddenly this burning city of ashes. For me, it was where I lived until the age of 5.

It depends on who you ask, ... There's a federal city and a local city. We are 100 percent committed to a ballpark that represents D.C. What does that mean? Our answer is both. We'll do something symbolic of both.

G. H. Hardy

I think this is as much symbolic as anything. But it's still important, and I understand why Sen. Byrd would push for this.

Todd Gitlin

I think there's a desire for results, a hard-bitten realism. The primary goal is not some sort of symbolic display, or some sort of posture or attitude, but results. If that's what it means, then I applaud the turn to practicality. Today the far right is in charge, and I don't think you can create the possibility of broad-based radicalism until you defeat the far right. Put the center in power and then you have the possibility--or the luxury--of radicalism.

The art of Native Americans is integrated into the functional. Many times the designs have symbolic or even magical meanings.

Our publisher is an incredibly determined guy. He saw it as a symbolic thing. He sort of willed it to happen.

Given that those who died were of all races and all ethnicities and that the statue was to be symbolic of those sacrifices, ultimately a decision was made to honor no one in particular, but everyone who made the supreme sacrifice.

From a symbolic perspective, this is a very important election for Japan as a victory for Koizumi and the coalition would be the most powerful signal yet that the economic model in Japan will change. Ultimately the economic cycle will prove a more significant driver of share prices.