Quotes About Symbolic Meaning

#1. the all too human need to conjure symbolic meaning from meaningless events.

Steven Erikson

#2. People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.

Rene Magritte

#3. Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

Charles Eastman

#4. As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect indicative - ridiculous. It has qualities, shadings, differentiations, rhythmic structures of symbolic meaning.

Frederick Lenz

#5. 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

#6. Japanese medical people are traditionally very strange and creepily poetic.

David Cronenberg

#7. The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.

Daniel Goleman

#8. In a way, humans are not made of skin and bones as such, as we're made of stories.

Sue Monk Kidd

#9. For me, the 'Three Stoppages' was a first gesture liberating me from the past.

Marcel Duchamp

#10. Machines will never be able to give the thinking process a model of thought itself, since machines are not mortal. What gives humans access to the symbolic domain of value and meaning is the fact that we die.

Regis Debray

#11. But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.

Paulo Coelho

#12. shit and shine-ola

Marlene

#13. I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because we had balance, we had lines to learn.

Berenice Bejo

#14. I've always felt sorry for Mike Collins, driving all the way to the moon but not allowed out of the car to look around.

Janet Turpin Myers

#15. The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

Boris Pasternak

#16. Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.

Sydney Smith

#17. Just walk up to your hell & give it a push. Run through it & i'll be waiting on the other side.

Laura Whitcomb

#18. I'd been on 'SVU' before and I'd been on 'Criminal Intent,' but I wasn't a follower. Like, my mom watches every episode, even before I was on it.

Kelli Giddish

#19. Myths remind us of the symbolic presence within all the lost-and-found adventures that alone can give life meaning. Losing touch with the world of myth means losing the sense that life is deeply meaningful, full of meanings trying to be revealed at each twist and turn in the ongoing drama.

Michael Meade