Symbols Quotes

The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols.

When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.

The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.

As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.

Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

When terrorists attacked the symbols of our national unity and strength, they failed to realize that they were just symbols of our strength. The real strength of our nation comes from our people - not our buildings.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.

This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.