Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

- George Henry Lewes

The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols.

- Joseph Franklin Rutherford

We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more.

- John Hench

When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.

- John Grierson

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

- John B. S. Haldane

The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.

- James Woods

I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.

- John Frusciante

When I think of sex symbols, I think of posters my two sisters had on their bedroom walls.

- Jamie Dornan

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.

- Jacques Lacan

My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.

- J. Paul Getty

I grew up in the north of Chile, and this is why there are a lot of religious symbols in my pictures: because the Catholic Church in Latin America is very strong.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am much more aware of making the plot more original, avoiding contrivance, having the story matter much more. I used to think more about symbols consciously. Now I think much more about the story.

- Dara Horn

But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.

- Daniel Clowes

I suppose that, for most of us, the fascination of conjoined twins is that such people can serve as symbols.

- Darin Strauss

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

- Charles Jencks

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

- Chuck Berry

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

I believe in status symbols.

- Brooks Stevens

The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

- Anya Seton

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

- Anselm Kiefer