Quotes About Symbolism

He is a reader, and what he believes in is narrative construction. If a gun appears in act one, that gun had better go off by act three.

Maya ha decidido ser la portadora de los anillos porque la tarea implica más responsabilidad que la de llevar las flores. —Si pierdes una flor, coges otra —razona—. Si pierdes un anillo, todo el mundo se queda triste para siempre. Quien lleva los anillos tiene mucho más poder. —Hablas como Gollum —le dice A.J. —¿Quién es Gollum? —pregunta Maya. —Un bicho raro que le gusta a tu padre.

The sight of the apple and the yew, tokens of the two Gaedil lovers who were fated never to meet in life, but who had met, nonetheless, dimmed her smile and clouded her eyes.

Looking back, it's easy to see the clothes as a metaphor for everything else that happened to women in postwar America.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Fue una obra extraña en la que algunos actores personificaban diversos símbolos, una de esas representaciones sesudas en las que te aburres como una ostra pero no te atreves a decirlo porque no quieres que un grupo de seudointelectuales te trate como una estúpida. Solo te diré que había muchas frases del estilo 'La Madre Tierra está sobre nosotros'.

Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.

Gestures are all that I have.

He planted marriage among humans as yet another signpost pointing to his own eternal, spiritual existence.

Grape juice at the communion table symbolizes the historical impotence of Christ's blood, Christ's gospel, Christ's church, and Christ's expanding kingdom. Grape juice stays 'bottled up', confined to the historical skins of Palestine.

Charles Maddox noted that "when I am told that the flag means 'nigger on top,' and that I can't stand under it and cast my ballot without asking a nigger's permission, then I think it is time to rescue the flag from the infamy that threatens

Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our eyes, and which becomes the symbol of it." Here we have a passage that designates the phenomenological direction I myself pursue. The exterior spectacle helps intimate grandeur unfold.

This is a book about getting naked—not physically, but spiritually. It's about stripping away the symbols and status of public religion—the Sunday-dress version people often call "organized religion." And it's about attending to the well-being of the soul clothed only in naked human skin.

his enemies in chapter 19 as the "great supper of God" where the birds of prey eat the flesh of his defeated foes (19:17). While Leviathan is not included in this Revelation passage, it is the same kind of nature banquet motif as described in Psalm 74: creatures feasting on the flesh of the enemies of God. The "banquet of flesh" was a common way of symbolizing deliverance from and victory

Like all those in the service of the gods, the isib had an elongated skull, was shorn of all hair, and carried the tattoos and piercings of the deity on his body beneath his multicolored linen robes. He was not one of the eunuchs. He was being groomed by Lugalanu himself to become a sanga, the next highest level of priest, an administrator with an eye toward becoming an ensi, the high priest.

It turns out that the commonly used standard we cited above of interpreting the Bible through our plain sense, common sense, ordinary and usual meaning is an act of cultural prejudice. Our Western plain sense literalism is simply not the priority in a very symbolic genre of a different culture with a different plain sense than ours, different colloquialisms and memes than ours, and a different sense of what is ordinary and usual.

The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.

The costumes aren't costumes they're uniforms. Uniforms mean something. At least to me. And while we wear them we represent something bigger. Something that symbolizes. We stand up. - Captain America

The bald eagle was still soaring above them, too, showing them that anything was possible, even a return from near extinction, as long as you had a little help.

I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.

I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure.

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy tales' concern is not useful information about the external world, but the inner process taking place in an individual.

For ordinary books are like meteors. Each of them has only one moment, a moment when it soars screaming like the phoenix, all its pages aflame. For that single moment we love them ever after, although they soon turn to ashes. With bitter resignation we sometimes wander late at night through the extinct pages that tell their stone dead messages like wooden rosary beads.