Mario Cuomo Quotes

Symbols are important. It depends on how they're used.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

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

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

Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.

Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.

Nature speaks in symbols and in signs.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.

The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.

Language is very important to me.

Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.

Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.

I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.

Language cares.

It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

Language is memory and metaphor.

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?