Quotes About Symbolism

I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.

Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.

I've used mirrors in a lot of movies. I think the mirror is an extraordinary thing, also the reflective, a reflection in water, etc.

I regularly dream about the Queen. Apparently, millions of people do. I wonder who she dreams about?

I feel George Wallace symbolizes something in the past which America has rejected.

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.

Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star has always been blonde.

It takes a long time for me to just say 'I'm going to get a tat.' I really do my homework on it and make sure that it's perfect and the way I want it and make sure there's always meaning because I never get anything without meaning.

To put on an England shirt to represent your country is a great honour. That feeling never changes.

Our logo for Lanvin is a mother and a daughter. I've always said, 'It's not a lion, and it's not a horse. It's a mother and a daughter.' I find the logo very emotional.

Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means.

Human beings have always been mythmakers.

Like the McMansion I rented, the bar featured symbolically in my childhood memories – a place where only grown-ups go, and do whatever grown-ups do. Maybe that's why I was so insistent on buying it after being stripped of my livelihood. It's a reminder that I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things.

Her lips were plum as labias.

A field of scarlet with nine hanged men in black and six yellow daggers in the upper left and lower right quadrants, respectively, while the upper right quandrant featured a shattered skull and the lower left boasted a bird astride a severed head. It might have been a raven. Or an eagle.

Then she turned and firmly folded her evening like gold and lavender gauze deep within the creases of her dreams, and let her clothes drop to the floor

blue rice bowl with the white rabbit painted on it.

Did you know the peach symbolizes longevity?

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Traces of the same spiritual concepts and symbolism that enlighten the Egyptian texts are found all around the world among cultures that we can be certain were never in direct contact. Straightforward diffusion from one to the other is therefore not the answer, and 'coincidence' doesn't even begin to account for the level of detail in the similarities. The best explanation, in my view, is that we're looking at a legacy, shared worldwide, passed down from a single, remotely ancient source.

And what if orphans really were called orchids? And if the sky was called the ground. And if a tree was called a daffodil. Would it make any difference to the actual nature of things? Or their mystery?

Actually, it's as if [Superman is] more real than we are. We writers come and go, generations of artists leave their interpretations, and yet something persists, something that is always Superman.

You never wear red to no funeral; red says the dead person was a fool.