#symbol

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

— Jim Morrison

#each #generation #names #new #new people

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#fully #grasp #imagery #necessarily #resonant

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#democracies #iraq #just #rest #symbol

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#continually #images #parcel #part #personality

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#bell #implies #interference #other #people

For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy. ↗

— Maurice Ravel

#always #debussy #different #direction #followed

The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#because #being #christians #commandments #foundation

But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete form of a man. In something that gives a focus to all the other things he knows to be real. Something that makes unseen things manifest and allows him to come to his hopes and dreams through his outer eye and through the touch and feel of his natural hand. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#dreams #hero #hopes #reality #symbol

No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#date #fourth #july #more #nation

There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life. ↗

— Pamela Anderson

#certain #dress #i #i am #kind