Quotes About Symbolism

These people were not only cheering, they were throwing flowers and hats. The hats were made of stone, but the thought was there.

Omens are everywhere in this world you just have to find the one that fits.

Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

And the new day was a great big fish

The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even less significant events have their own Horsemen. For example, the Four Horsemen of the Common Cold are Sniffles, Chesty, Nostril, and Lack of Tissues; the Four Horsemen whose appearance foreshadows any public holiday are Storm, Gales, Sleet, and Contra-flow.

It's a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying thing.

The pen is mightier than the sword… if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp.

We spray our fantasies on the landscape like a dog sprays urine. It turns it into ours. Once we've invented our gods and demons, we can propitiate or exorcize them. Once we've put fairies in the sinister solitary thorn tree, we can decide where we stand in relation to it; we can hang ribbons on it, see visions under it—or bulldoze it up and call ourselves free of superstition.

Contrary to popular belief, the wings of demons are the same as the wings of angels, although they're often better groomed.

Don't put your faith in gods. But you can believe in turtles.

it wasn't the wearing of the hat that counted so much as having one to wear. Every trade, every craft had its hat.

Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see.

Ask the next question, and the one that follows that, and the one that follows that. It's the symbol of everything humanity has ever created, and is the reason it has been created.

The people who wrote down the Bible and the people who wrote down the Mahayana sutras were artists. They used images to express their insights.

At the end of the day, we all know what the Jordan logo means, and you can't take anything away from that. But it's pretty cool to have my own logo on a Jordan shoe.

Things that become important to economies become ritualized and become deified. Because I'm Jewish, I always thought it was interesting that in Judaism, salt seals a bargain, particularly the covenant with God. Some people, when they bless bread, they dip it in salt. Same thing exists in Islam.

Clothes is just something you put on to cover yourself... fashion is a way to communicate.

Why shouldn't a car key look like a car?

If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.

In Bangladesh, if you put a kiss in a film, it's political.

I told you I wouldn't forget you...and as I'm sure you remember, the black rose is you.

Some call its twins berries the testicles of Uranus

She'd accepted his blade and stayed. She didn't ken the full significance of that. When a Druid offered his favored weapon, his Selvar, the one he wore against his skin, to a woman, he offered his protection. His guardianship. Forever. And she'd taken it.