#symbol

My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols. ↗

— Paul Getty

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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

#broader #countries #european #european countries #expression

I would never know how to sell myself as a sex symbol. That's not how I'm programmed. ↗

— Jude Law

#i #know #myself #never #programmed

Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol. ↗

— Isaac Mizrahi

#face #his #jagger #mick #mick jagger

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#doctrine #greater #history #particular #problem

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure. ↗

— Annette Funicello

#failure #me #mere #symbolized #terrified

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve. ↗

— Nate Silver

#become #deserve #does #doing #i

I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie. ↗

— Veronica Lake

#sex #sex symbol #symbol #zombie

Behind these eyes there is a girl trapped within her pain – a girl feeling all the emotions of anger and sadness. She’s fighting for a way out.” (In her eyes, p. 39) ↗

— Chimnese Davids

#eyes #sadness #symbolism #anger

The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it with the world as they think about it and talk about it and describe it. For on the one hand there is the real world and on the other there is a whole system of symbols about that world which we have in our minds. These are very very useful symbols, all civilization depends on them, but like all good things they have their disadvantages, and the principle disadvantage of symbols is that we confuse them with reality, just as we confuse money with actual wealth. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#nominalism #reality #symbols #art