Symbol Quotes

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

In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.

It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.

Spock was the sex symbol. A lot of people think it was Kirk. But, no, it was really Spock.

What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.

I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.

Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol.

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.

In terms of men I fancy, I think the actor James Franco is gorgeous. But I find it odd to be described as a sex symbol myself.

Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.

Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.

The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom.

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious.

I'm not a sex symbol.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn Monroe suffered and so on, and I was able to get free of that.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.

This monument is going to be built as a symbol.

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.