Quotes About Symbolism

The speech of flowers excels the flowers of speech.

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

Iconicity provides an extra layer of metaphorical structure to the poem.

In the early 20th century the monarchy was held up as the archetypical virtuous British family. In the late 20th century it became the most wonderful symbol of the complete re-engineering of family structures.

What makes 'The Marriage of Souls' such a wonderful book is Collins's intricate reconstruction of the late eighteenth-century world. Simplicity and philosophy are the hallmarks of eighteenth-century art and architecture. The classically pure lines look deceptively simple and unburdened by heavy symbolism or imagery.

A word is an arbitrary label - that's the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering a spell, incantation, curse, or prayer can change the world. Don't snicker: Would you ever say, 'Nothing has gone wrong yet' without looking for wood to knock?

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

Vexillography is a very big word! Vexillography is really the high science and art and understanding of flags and their history - the academic word for flag making and heraldry.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

The bread while becoming by virtue of Christ's words the body of Christ does not cease to be bread.

The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.

Sometimes people say that a picture is worth a thousand words, so if you look at my tattoos and you know what you're reading, you can draw a lot from them.

In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.

The coronation is a symbol of power, but it's not a symbol for us the people. It's a symbol for that person, who is a human, to become a higher being and become one with God. The church, the scepter, and the crown have been around forever. And the line of kings of England goes back thousands of years.

The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of feminists as bra-burners.

The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

I've gotten to where my hair is like my onstage prop; I need to hide behind it and throw it around - it's my slo-mo effect.