The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Symbols have power and meaning and can mean different things to different people at different times and in different contexts.

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

I began as a graphic designer. As part of my work, I created film symbols for ad campaigns. I happened to be working on the symbols for Otto Preminger's 'Carmen Jones' and 'The Man With The Golden Arm' and at some point, Otto and I just looked at each other and said, 'Why not make it move?' It was as simple as that.

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

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

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.

Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients.

If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover.

In many traditions, hawks are sacred: Apollo's messengers for the Greeks, sun symbols for the ancient Egyptians and, in the case of the Lakota Sioux, embodiments of clear vision, speed and single-minded dedication.

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.

Clothes are status signifiers, and no matter how restrained, they always give you subtle symbols of what your values are.

I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights.

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

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

My first book is called 'The New Age Millennium: An Expose of Symbols, Slogans and Hidden Agendas.' When the book first came out, everybody called me a conspiracy theorist.

Symbols are the poetry of a people's soul.

A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn.