Quotes with symbolic

  • Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.

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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Ali vs. Stevenson would have served as a symbolic battle between the United States and Cuba, capitalism and communism: Castro's values instilled in his boxers pitted against the values of 'merchandise' boxers from the rest of the world.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Castro always used the boxers as a symbolic war against American values to demonstrate that they fight for something more than money.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Albert Einstein Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Anish Kapoor I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Caitlin Moran If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Norman Thomas If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.
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  • Antonio Tabucchi 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.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro It is no wonder that advocates of Obamacare blindly push forward with their agenda to force religious Americans to violate their own precepts: in the war between the state and the individual, religion is on the side of the individual and his or her relationship with God. That is why symbolic prayer matters. It is symbolic.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Andrea Dworkin Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Alex Haley Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
    Alex Haley
    American writer (1921 - 1992)
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  • Ezra Pound The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Ang Lee The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Hugo Ball The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?
    Hugo Ball
    German author and poet (1886 - 1927)
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  • Adlai Stevenson To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.
    Adlai Stevenson
    American politician and vice president (1835 - 1914)
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  • Alan Watts We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Neville Chamberlain We regard the agreements signed last night as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again.
    Speech 30-09-1938
    Neville Chamberlain
    British politician and Prime Minister (1869 - 1940)
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