Quotes tagged ‘Symbols’

“People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can’t do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man, I’m flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed, but as a symbol…as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting.”

— David S. Goyer, Christopher Nolan, Bruce Wayne / Batman, Christian Bale, imdb.com

“Individuals can be divided and conquered, but symbols… Symbols endure.”

— Hallie Lambert, Commander Klaes Ashford, David Strathairn, imdb.com

“Letters are symbols. They are building blocks of words which form our languages. Languages help us communicate. Even with complicated languages used by intelligent people, misunderstanding is a common occurrence. We write things down sometimes — letters, words — hoping they will serve us and those w…”

— Robert Engels, Log Lady, Catherine E. Coulson, imdb.com

“It's not enough for candy to be candy. It has to symbolize candy too.”

— Carina Chocano, amazon.com

“My favorite symbols were those which I didn’t understand.”

— Adolph Gottlieb, amazon.com

“Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.”

— Martin Luther King Jr., amazon.com

“A good rule of thumb is that if you see something that looks like it might be a symbol in a work by Edgar Allan Poe, it's death!”

— John Green, youtube.com

“Look at Ahab's whale. Now there's a great symbol. Some say it stands for god, meaning, and purpose. Others say it stands for purposelessness and the void. But what we sometimes forget is that Ahab's whale was also just a whale.”

— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com

“Ideally, you shouldn’t be detaching Symbols often, because that defeats the purpose. Create the most basic version of a component, individual Symbols that you can combine later to create a more maintainable whole.”

— Lloyd Humphreys, medium.com