Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Sapir

No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.

Arthur C. Clarke

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

A. E. Waite

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

Paul Emsley

I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.

John Schlesinger

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

The Weeknd

I usually dont like to spoon feed my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

Gene Tierney

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

Hal Borland

In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both love and happiness soon thereafter. So to me [the May apple] is the mandrake, the love symbol, of the old dealers in plant restoratives.

Jesse Jackson

If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.

Don McLean

The process got abused, ... So what do you do about it? Do you become cynical and turn your back on it, or do you do something about it?

Carlos Santana

The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.

Bill Mauldin

'Peace' is when nobody's shooting. A 'just peace' is when our side gets what it wants.

Bill Maher

False hope really makes you cynical.

Michael Gerber

Many residents have grown more cynical about government, ... Sure, I want my constituents to feel good about me as their legislator, but we have to do something to restore the public's faith in government.

Alan Rusbridger

So I think it is wise to be extremely cynical about what you are being told, even from your own government.

Ed Helms

I'm a very jaded and cynical person.

Benjamin Franklin

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

Benedict Cumberbatch

It's very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.

Bruce Steinbecker

We have to have a short memory and be able to come back ready to play (today). We have to learn from our mistakes, and hopefully we'll get it fixed.

Arun Jaitley

We have narrowed down the differences and are hopeful of reaching an understanding very soon.

Laura Bush

When you see all these people working on it, I feel hopeful that people will be reunited,

Sam Worthington

When I do my job, I dive into these characters and try to flush something out of myself into these characters, and hopefully that translates well.

Roger Ashby

We know we have to improve significantly on the Kettering performance. But hopefully that was a one off. It'll be tough up there but by no means impossible.

Jeremy Clarkson

I think people who watch 'Top Gear' think they're the only ones watching it, which I quite like, because it can hopefully last for a long time.

Dave Bristow

We are hopeful we'll have an arrest. We think we will.

Mike Holtzman

We are hopeful that the legacy of this investigation is reform,

John Finnegan

We are hopeful that other people would come forward,