Quotes About Meaning

A lot of the lyrics I write involve images that just swing the song in a way that feels really good to me and there isn't a literal explanation. They're not riddles for the listener to solve.

If you want to do 'Sword & Sandals' movies, people think that means it equals 'epic.'

Syllables govern the world.

It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

We often find far more power in a symbol than in something that is an an actuality.

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.

This monument is going to be built as a symbol.

Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol.

I always look for characters that will hopefully develop into a more powerful symbol.

Even if you don't like colours, you will end up having something red. For everyone who doesn't like colour, red is a symbol of a lot of culture. It has a different signification but never a bad one.

When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.

I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol.

I've got a Kanji symbol on my shoulder; it's for my son and means 'strength and power.' I have my son and daughter's names, Dominik and Aalyah, written on the inside of the left and right biceps, too.

Prateik means symbol so I symbolise certain things in my life.

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

People crown kings and queens at homecoming parades all the time. We do a lot of things in our society that are simply symbolic.

Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype.

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures.