Quotes About Symbolism

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

You can say, 'Well, isn't it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine' - well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn't matter, because that is how it's represented. It's been represented like that forever. And there are reasons for it. You can't change it. It's not possible. This is underneath everything.

I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective.

Do you notice that all presidents have a dog? There is always a First Dog. Or two or three. You have to have a dog to be president, I guess.

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

Canada was built on dead beavers.

I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.

What people are consuming is what things represent. It's people defining themselves through what they wear.

Dreams, I would say, are probably the most prevalent way a loved one will try to deliver a message.

Usually, as designers, you try to create meaning.

When we burn the Ravana, we are symbolically destroying the evil in our society. We need to remember this after the Ramleela is over.

I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

The tarot is sacred.

We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.

Tarot is just stories on cards.

I looked up the Queen of Swords and I read the meaning. It was a tarot card. The description of the tarot card sounded to me like the description of a certain type of woman: She's strong, she's proud, she's intelligent and all these different things. I was like, that's how I want to be.

My tattoo is a phoenix. I got the first when I was 16. I hid it for years.

I got a tattoo saying 'Made in England' above my foot to represent that, that I felt like a doll for so long.

I have a heart tattoo on the inside of my middle finger on my left hand.

My second tattoo was a pirate ship on my arm. My friends and I, you know, we all called ourselves pirates, you know, so we felt like, you know,we was the pirates of the Caribbean around the way.

A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands.

I got his initials tattooed on the back of my neck, you know, since we both now have the same initials.

I get tattooed a lot.