Quotes About Symbolism

Wrath mutely put out his hand, the one on which the huge black diamond that signified his station rested. In the Old Language, the King proclaimed

Marriage is composed of three rings: engagement ring, wedding ring and suffering.

The notion of representing a sound by a graphic symbol is itself so stupefying a leap of the imagination that what is remarkable is not so much that it happened relatively late in human history, but that it happened at all.

Pretty girls make graves

Buds in the snow —the deadly fight between two birds

The tree looks like a dog, Barking at heaven

Billie offers to dig the garbage pit but does so by digging a neat tiny coffinshaped grave instead of just a garbage hole—Even Dave Wain blinks to see it—It's exactly the size fit for putting a little dead Elliott in it, Dave is thinking the same thing I am I can tell by a glance he gives me—We've all read Freud sufficiently to understand something there

She was pure, it was true, as he had never dreamed of purity; but cherries stained her lips.

I suppose that, for most of us, the fascination of conjoined twins is that such people can serve as symbols.

Information comes through to me in 3 basic ways seen, hearing, and feeling the energy of the person that's crossed over. In which it is a symbolic type of language.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.

The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That's the real guy.

Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she's a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove.

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

Standing on the apex of our planet is humbling. I'm starved of oxygen, depleted of reserves, unable to eat, and bound by anxiety. This is a dangerous place. Yet the symbolism of standing on top of the world gives me a chance to experience time on a cosmic scale.

The XCX really stands for 'kiss Charli kiss,' which is unbelievably crap.

Every sword that was dripping the blood became a pen. Every word that was written in it became a poetry.

"Only the pots know the boiling points of the broths," she says as Tita weeps into the wedding batter she is making to celebrate the marriage of her sister to her own true love.

His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.

The stars are pears that no one can reach, even for a wedding. Perhaps for a death.

Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.

What I did was pour out about a gallon of Chanel Number Five and put a burning wedding invitation to it, and boom, I'm recycling.

A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.