Quotes About Symbolism

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit em, but remember that it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

He likened Tom's death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children

Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' ?To Kill a Mockingbird?

Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up peoples gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember, it is a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Mockingbirds don't do one thing but . . . sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.

Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She captured words in a dream, like delicately catching hold of a butterfly's wings as it flutters around. Artists are those who can evade the verbose.

But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life? Word games, I dismissed. Every army needs a flag.

There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might call the honorary town councillors of the worm universe. In the worm universe, there is nothing unusual about a dairy cow seeking a pair of pliers. A cow is bound to get her pliers sometime. It has nothing to do with me.

I'm scared, she said. These days I feel like a snail without a shell. I'm scared too, I said. I feel like a frog without any webs. She looked up and smiled. Wordlessly we walked over to a shaded part of the building and held each other and kissed, a shell-less snail and a webless frog.

Everything in life is a metaphor.

Having an object that symbolizes freedom might make a person happier than actually getting the freedom it represents.

There are symbolic dreams-dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities-realities that symbolize a dream

Why a unicorn? Maybe the unicorn, too, is one of the Men Without Women. I mean, I've never seen a unicorn couple. He -- it has to be a he, right? -- is always alone, sharp horn thrust toward the sky. Maybe we should adopt him as the symbol of Men Without Women, of the loneliness we carry as our burden. Perhaps we should sew unicorn badges on our breast pockets and hats, and quietly parade down streets all over the world. No music, no flags, no ticker tape. Probably.

Mañana lloverá porque un oso polar se ha comido las estrellas.

Six pull-tabs lay in the ashtray like scales from a mermaid.

The world is a metaphor, Kafka Tamura.

It was as if he felt that the black symbols flowing from his brush onto the pure white paper could somehow lay bare the workings of his heart.

A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.

When the sun went down, and touches of blue filtered into the fading afterglow, an orange lamp would light up in the knob of the bell and slowly begin to revolve. The beacon always pinpointed the onset of nightfall exactly. Against the most gorgeous sunsets or in dim drizzling mist, the beacon was ever true to its appointed moment: that precise instant in the alchemy of light and dark when darkness tipped the scales.

But metaphors can reduce the distance. We're not metaphors. I know, but metaphors eliminates what separates you and me.

A cat's tail waved above the arm of the couch like an elegant hand in a black glove waving goodbye.