Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that not degraded.

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty democracy and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude which our eye perceives which art reproduces and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself but always some manner of life.

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude not looks. Most men think it's looks most women know otherwise.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

There is a powerful need for symbolism and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

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

This year as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

I'm not alone I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit I don't have to be a symbol to anybody I don't have to be a first to anybody.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.