Quotes About Symbolic

In 1994, the College Board changed the test's name from Scholastic Aptitude Test to the Scholastic Assessment Test. Now according to the College Board, the letters don't stand for anything anymore. Perhaps that itself is symbolic.

I do think my lyrics have gotten... not necessarily more poetic, but more open to interpretation; they're less literal.

My approach to portraiture is conceptual.

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

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.

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.

There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

In the game of politics, both parties are sometimes guilty of passing really stupid laws that, in reality, are purely symbolic and have no real impact on anyone.

We have a First Amendment right to burn the flag as symbolic speech. The Constitution protects that right. To spend time and effort on this is ridiculous.

Seven is the magic figure, because that's a symbolic figure of my favorite deity, Ogun.

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

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.

If you add up all the promises any politician makes, the math doesn't work. Hillary Clinton's math doesn't work; Donald's math probably doesn't work. I think you have to listen to their campaign pitches more as symbolic, more as metaphors.

As a proud Indigenous man I have a lot of things that are symbolic and have a lot of meaning to me.

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.

So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.

I know that I'll joke around to the last minute I get in the car. But once the helmet's on - it's sort of a cliche, but it's true - it's quite symbolic that that is 'go time,' and I'm ready to have some fun and be bad while I do it.

I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.

It was a symbolic moment when 'Moonlight' literally took the Oscar out of 'La La Land's' hand.

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist.

In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.