Quotes About Symbol

like the scorpion's question mark drawn in the pollen on the canvas of the sky and of our brains at midnight

The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can't be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.

I don't know what an interrobang is." "It's a glyph that combines a question mark and an exclamation point.

The menu is not the meal.

The photographic image... is a message without a code.

I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.

As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'

I always wear my evil eye necklace to ward off bad karma. I always wear one to protect me.

The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it.

Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.

Best-friend tattoos require so much prep work, which adds to their legitimacy. First, a friendship must be deep enough to warrant the rite; then the perfect symbol must be found to forge the bond.

Myra Breckenridge is the antithesis of sex symbol. She's revolutionary; she's a warrior.

I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?

'Luncheon of the Boating Party,' owned by The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., has served Americans as a symbol of France and French culture, both of which I love, and is as evocative and triumphant an image as that other emissary of France, the Statue of Liberty.

A sacred thing has to be used on sacred and lawful occasions. A kirpan is undoubtedly a symbol of strength, which adorns the possessor only if he exercises amazing restraint over himself and uses it against enormous odds…

Nishan Sahib), which was raised at every gurdwara from the 1620s, when Guru Hargobind led the community.

A chair is the first thing you need when you don't really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it is civilization, not survival, that requires design.

I got to have that S on my chest. Superman.

Christopher Reeve will always be Superman in my mind.

For me, Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster's character was Superman.

I don't want to see Superman replaced with Superboy.

I have a statue of Superman. It's actually a big one... It's a collectible statue of Superman, which the DC guys very kindly gave to me. So that's a little prized possession of mine.

Superman has been around for so long; he's been around for, what, eight decades now? And he goes through these different eras where different aspects of who he is get emphasized.

My favorite of all time will always be Christopher Reeve. He'll always be Superman in my eyes.