Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Emsley

I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.

Shirin Neshat

Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.

Haruki Murakami

I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.

Edward Albee

I don't like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.

Arthur C. Clarke

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

John Schlesinger

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

The Weeknd

I usually dont like to spoon feed my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

Jesse Jackson

If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.

Mitt Romney

Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon.

Beth Moore

We can grow so accustomed to being spoon-fed the Word of God that we sometimes forget how to examine the Scriptures for ourselves.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Richard Paul Evans

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Umberto Eco

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

Reza Aslan

No- one is ever told any story but their own.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Vincente Minnelli

It's the story that counts.

Salman Rushdie

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Salman Rushdie

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.