#symbolic

Today's terrorists are pursuing a distinct route. They are increasingly attacking civilians in symbolic targets, such as those of economic importance, or venues of bustling life like public transportation or entertainment, like nightclubs. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#civilians #distinct #economic #entertainment #importance

It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#inspirational #meaningful #symbolic #beauty

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. ↗

— Michael Graves

#any #between #equity #function #pragmatic

The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

#because #complex #different #distinctive #each

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? ↗

— Hugo Ball

#images #language #long #paradise #real

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#feel #i #i feel #problem #symbolic

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#almost #deeper #eat #every #food

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