#symbol

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

Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#coincide #cycles #goddess #great #lives

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable. ↗

— Paul Claudel

#either #everything #expression #happens #meaning

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#failure #guns #human #rockets #symbols

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

#characteristic #deed #either #given #indian

My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#australian #commitment #desire #love #movement

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#attitude #being #know #looks #men

In terms of men I fancy, I think the actor James Franco is gorgeous. But I find it odd to be described as a sex symbol myself. ↗

— Emma Watson

#described #fancy #find #franco #gorgeous

To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#am #become #china #critical #dangerous

Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#being #building #city #felt #gateway