Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Blumenthal

There are certain symbols and images that appeal more strongly to children and this regulation includes the most obvious among them, ... The state has wide discretion to regulate the sales of alcohol.

Carl Jung

A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.

Carl Jung

In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures.

Carl Jung

Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.

We're seeing a tremendous amount of activity overseas, whether it's in Asia or the Middle East. For countries that are emerging on the economic scene, very tall buildings are symbols of their economic strength.

Diane von Furstenberg

For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life.

C. S. Lewis

The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.

We were trying to characterize the lens through which people see the world. A community is a collection of symbols and images. And we wanted our symbols and images to be better than the other guy's.

Christina Baker Kline

When you can type a few words into a search engine and land on your topic - or when you can scan a Shakespeare play for specific words or symbols - what opportunities might you miss to expand your thinking in unexpected ways?

Danny Meyer

Human nature doesn't change. When enough people are comfortable enough financially, there is going to be human nature that wants to spend more money on better quality and, to some degree, status symbols as well.

National anthems are symbols of a culture and symbols of what the majority of the country believes in.

Diego Della Valle

La Scala is easily one of the top 10 symbols of Italy's cultural excellence. That makes it vital to our global image. Closing it would send a message to the rest of the world that Italy doesn't care.

Roger Scruton

Our gardens are symbols of home rather than seduction. Young people with fire in their blood are seldom found in them. The garden is the scene of middle age, of the slow passage from sexual excitement to domestic routine.

FREEMASONS, n. An order with secret rites, grotesque ceremonies and fantastic costumes, which, originating in the reign of Charles II, among working artisans of London, has been joined successively by the dead of past centuries in unbroken retrogression until now it embraces all the generations of man on the hither side of Adam and is drumming up distinguished recruits among the pre-Creational inhabitants of Chaos and Formless Void. The order was founded at different times by Charlemagne, Julius Caesar, Cyrus, Solomon, Zoroaster, Confucious, Thothmes, and Buddha. Its emblems and symbols have been found in the Catacombs of Paris and Rome, on the stones of the Parthenon and the Chinese Great Wall, among the temples of Karnak and Palmyra and in the Egyptian Pyramids --always by a Freemason.

Placido Domingo

Francesca's productions are always beautifully balanced between the intimacy of the characters and the sweep of the epic, and I think that she will use the symbols of America brilliantly.

If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye it is indistinguishable from higher mathematics.

Gary Ackerman

From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free.

Anya Seton

The soul ... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

Brooks Stevens

I believe in status symbols.

We live in a period where these symbols are taking on very strong connotations and very divisive ones.

Seabirds are ideal symbols for ocean conservation. Because they live in a variety of habitats-including oceans, islands, estuaries and beaches-they can show visitors how all coastal life is connected and spark new interest in coastal conservation. Long-term conservation success hinges on public understanding and community support.

Seabirds are ideal symbols for ocean conservation, ... Because they live in a variety of habitats-including oceans, islands, estuaries and beaches-they can show visitors how all coastal life is connected and spark new interest in coastal conservation. Long-term conservation success hinges on public understanding and community support.

Barbara Mikulski

The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.

Ayn Rand

I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.

Charles Jencks

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.

Alfred Korzybski

Who rules our symbols, rules us.

Nancy Gibbs

If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe.

Adolph Gottlieb

My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.

Allen Ginsberg

Things are symbols of themselves.

Sophia Amoruso

A big practice in chaos magic is the use of sigils, which are abstract words or symbols you create and embed with your wishes.

When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.

Charlotte Lamb

A romantic novel is an adult fairy story, repeating the recurring symbols and images which can explain life to a woman and satisfy a powerful need within her. The need to love and be loved is vital to all human beings, but especially to women.