Quotes About Symbolism

Oh my God, you look at all the uniforms in Star Wars, and it's all Nazi iconography.

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.

Why did I choose Washington among offers from other cities? Because it is the capital of the world.

It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.

I smiled into the darkness. There was nothing "just" about metaphors, I was beginning to think; they followed me everywhere, illuminating and failing and illuminating again.

was good to see a dragon's teeth. A dragon with his mouth closed was far more likely to be working up a flame. That seemed completely obvious.

Dragons aren't good at metaphor.

Flotaba en el agua cuando le pregunté: -Entonces, ese tatuaje de tu hombro, ¿Qué significa? -Todos los machos se hacen un tatuaje cuando están listos para declarársele a la chica que han elegido para ser su pareja. El tatuaje representa el nombre de ella escrito en la lengua antigua de nuestra especie. -¿Y a quien has elegido tú? Él me miro como preguntándome si de verdad era tan tonta. -¡Ah!

The VW doesn't make you think of Hitler and genocide. It's a breast on wheels, a puffy little dream.

Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.

The word for a lion, 'Singh' was also, as we have seen, the name used by the Mughal empire's Rajput mansabdars.

We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things turns out to have been groundless after all, for we do not love things or even possess them: they pass through our lives as barium passes through the digestive tract, unassimilated, their function merely to flash signals along the way.

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.

O livro que espalma a flor nas suas págimas transforma-a em borboleta.

La luna es un banco de metáforas arruinado.

Srinagar, there was a grave of a Christian soldier from Travancore, which had the Vedic swastika and a verse from the Quran inscribed on it. There could be 'no more poignant and touching symbolof the essential oneness and unity of India'.61

To ask us to serve the nation is to ask chandan [sandalwood] to be fragrant.

The Name of the Rose and J. M. Synge's Riders to the Sea?

Uzevši u obzir svoj ograni?eni umjetni?ki dar, zaklju?io sam da ?e biti najbolje ako naslikam stvari u jednostavnim geometrijskim oblicima. Stoga sam naslikao jednostavnu raketu s krilcima i Snjegulji?ino zrcalo s natpisom: »Sje?aš li se kad sam ti rekao da si najljepša? Lagao sam!«

For Jai and me, our dented cars became a statement in our marriage. Not everything needs to be fixed.

U redu, možda ovo zvu?i malo uvrnuto. Ali ako vaša kanta za sme?e ili ta?ke imaju kakvu ulupinu, ne?ete kupovati nove. Možda je to zato jer vam kante za sme?e i ta?ke ne služe kao simboli socijalnog statusa i identiteta. Za Jai i mene naši su ošte?eni automobili postali potvrda našeg braka. Ne treba se baš sve popraviti.

The giant stuffed animals all found homes quickly. A few days later, I learned that one of the animals had been taken by a Carnegie Mellon who, like me, has cancer. After the lecture, she walked up and selected the giant elephant. I love the symbolism of that. She got the elephant in the room.

The federal government, in its own way, had cut off his balls. It had symbolically lynched Jack Johnson.