Quotes About Symbolism

It had to do with the way the mail wasn't delivered on time, and how potholes never got fixed, or the thievery at City Hall, or the race riots, or the 801 fires set around the city on Devil's night. The Lisbon girls became a symbol of what was wrong with the country, the pain it inflicted on even its most innocent citizens, and in order to make things better a parents' group donated a bench in the girls' memory to our school.

All this led up to the day Desdemona dangled a utensil over my mother's belly. The sonogram didn't exist at the time; the spoon was the next best thing.

Butterflies are a lot like rainbows: They're phenomenally beautiful in real life, yet no graphic representation can do them justice; ergo, it's best to forgo.

He paints a simple square house with a triangle roof that has an S inside, Because, Suzanne, you are my home.

Jenny Diski lies here. But tells the truth over there",' I instructed. 'Also, I'd like a dove, a winged angel, an anchor and an open book, properly carved on a nice piece of granite.

Never before had I seen such a striking uniform. At the proud peak of the cap glittered a death's-head and crossbones, while lightninglike signs embellished the collar. A red badge bearing the bold sign of the swastika cut across his sleeve.

Should a person wear the clothes of their enemy or the clothes of their hero?

The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain.

tour guide tells them that after the Taj was completed, each of the builders, twenty-two thousand men, had his thumbs cut off so that the structure could never be built again.

The Arnolfini Marriage by van Eyck

I decided to grow my hair out during college, and it's kind of stuck ever since. Even when I thought about cutting it or trimming it, common sense kicks in, and I don't think the fans would recognize me; people wouldn't know who I am. It would almost be like Santa Claus losing his powers.

David Harrington asked me to write a piece for Kronos Quartet for a performance in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. I live just two blocks from the park and spend many mornings running around it. The park for me symbolizes much of what I love about New York, especially the stunning diversity of Brooklyn with its myriad cultures and communities.

Fashion is a language, and therefore says something about politics, and certain fashion styles get associated with certain political standpoints.

All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a subconscious or dream realm. People like Jan Svankmajer, or the artist Yoshimoto Nara, or David Lynch.

Pop culture is like our subconscious.

I'm a big fan of monsters. Number one, they're fun, and two, they're such great ways to access the subconscious fears and beliefs of any group of people.

The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.

The word for patience in Arabic is 'cactus'. They have the same meaning -'to endure thirst'.

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

But couldn't he burn the twaddle instead of straining it. The story of the man who uses a Bunsen burner to singe from his lips the words with which a story might otherwise have been told.

Form betrays. Form can betray. What matter, if the eternal meaning retains its true value.

Consigned the sandals to my hand

Per questo ho deciso che il mio numero, per il Mondiale, sarebbe stato il 46. Quel numero racchiude la mia carriera, in parte anche la mia vita. Di sicuro simboleggia la mia grande, incredibile avventura. Mi ricorda il giorno in cui tutto ha avuto inizio.

Zora did not mince words in this chapter and nothing seemed to escape her critical eye. Speaking of Christian hypocrisy, for example, she wrote: "Popes and Prelates, Bishops and Elders have halted sermons on peace at the sound of battle and rushed out of their pulpits brandishing swords and screaming for blood in Jesus' name. The pews followed the pulpit in glee. So it is obvious that the Prince of Peace is nothing more than a symbol.