Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain for a few hours with nar….

God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He comes to us at once by the most natural cours….

You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid.

I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use of mathematical symbolism and numbe….

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..

I make movies for money, exclusively for money..

In the vast majority of cases the secret society symbolism hearkens from two places - Ireland and Egypt..

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values….

I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's "symbolism". Far from being symbolic, be se….

The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know is that here was the modern human mind ….

You know, when you're in your twenties you use a great deal of symbolism. You somehow think that a character standing beneath a cross is more interes….

I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't understand..

To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books. It has….

No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical cat….

The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,'….

I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also I have a religious training. And I sup….

The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th anniversary of Abra….

Ask yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus wer….

All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods ….

It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a ….

I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism..