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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril.

Oscar Wilde

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

Ayn Rand

The site of flags flying amid the rubble of Camille is the most endearing memory of that storm, and is already becoming a symbol of our neighbor's determination to rebuild again, ... There just aren't enough flags.

John Mcfarland

I've served in two churches that burned to the ground, ... One thing I've learned is that the building is just a house we use. People think it's a symbol of who we are. It's not. Bangor Theological Seminary is more than that old campus that we all loved.

John Lacey

The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!

John Burroughs

Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.

Irving R. Kaufman

A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted; because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol.

Charles Horton Cooley

Helen is a symbol of the tenacity of our people.

Lisa Mendler

The case of Mr Habre constitutes a symbol of impunity in Africa.

Boucounta Diallo

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

Pericles

Rosa Parks was a symbol of fighting for civil rights. She personified simple eloquence.

Hilary Shelton

[It is an appropriate symbol of the dedication Richardson has shown to young artists over the past 26 years.] I like the things that young people like, ... I'm still a child who likes ice cream, ridiculous games and giggling about.

Frank Skinner

They are wonderful craftsmen who play with a great sense of humor and scale. They easily take a symbol of war and turn it into something domestic.

Gregory Knight

The Hawaii Medal of Honor is a symbol of our remembering those who stood tall for our values so that we may live in a land perpetuated in righteousness.

Sen. Norman Sakamoto

This border crossing is a symbol of the dynamic development of Greek-Bulgarian relations and shows that we are prepared to go through mountains to tread the paths of friendship.

Georgi Parvanov

It is my hope that on Flag Day, all Americans take a moment to reflect on our blessings and pay gratitude to those who have made America the strong, free, fortunate nation it is. Today, we pause to pay respect to the American flag - a symbol of centuries of perseverance, pioneering and patriotism.

Roscoe Bartlett

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.

Marilyn Monroe

I want Omega Man to be the equivalent of any Caucasian superhero, like a Superman, Batman, a noble righteous character, ... That's what we're trying to do with Omega Man - give you a symbol that is African-American but is 100 percent positive.

Alonzo Washington

I think it's a symbol of the freedom of skiing at Brundage.

Dennis Coyle

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

John Mahoney

The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.

Alan Keyes

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure [Jesus Christ].

Fidel Castro

The most important thing we've been this year is a symbol.

Tim Franklin

We would like to invite the United States to consider acceding to the TAC, ... Such a step would indeed serve as a symbol of political commitment to the region by the United States.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.

Pamela Anderson

This building is not just important to Catholics. It's a symbol of religious freedom for everyone.

Mark Potter

This is a real cool thing. The motorcycle is the symbol of freedom.

Tukufu Zuberi

Probably the most important thing was the educational process those students went through. Our role in the state symbol was to help those students have that experience.

Tom Lochner

You see, the Confederate flag flying above the statehouse flies in a vacuum, ... The Klan can misuse it as a racist tool, as it has, and others can misuse it solely as a symbol for racism, as they have.

David Beasley

Anglos are in the midst of watching a demographic change occur. The future is a non-Anglo future. It's not surprising that immigration has become a symbol. The issue is much more symbolic than it is real. It isn't clear what the state can do, in terms of controlling borders.

Stephen Klineberg

For them this is a final straw, the final symbol of Soviet greatness.

Steve Harrigan

Henry Ford was an innovative educator, environmentalist and engineer and therefore his estate is a symbol for UM-D.

Mary Heininger

The symbol of Moses and the burning bush is such a powerful image in Jewish philosophy. It is a beautiful image.

Jay Lewis

The shoes are a great symbol of the conflict between the sisters. Haven't we all at one time or another wanted to be in someone else's shoes? To have their advantages, their good fortune.

Curtis Hanson

Deferring deposits to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is more symbol than substance.

David Sandalow

Everywhere you go around the country, people relate to the consecutive games steak in one shape or form, whether it's school or how they approach their job. I'm still pretty amazed that it became a symbol. I didn't think it was that big a deal.

Cal Ripken Jr

Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Victoria Billings

Rivalry between two sides, whatever their issues, must remain in the sporting domain. But for 20 years, PSG-OM and OM-PSG has been a symbol of division, a long, long way from the kind of enjoyment and spirit of exchange football should promote.

Pierre Blayau

Hollywood has now raped the Marlboro Man. It has taken a revered symbol of America -- the cowboy -- with all the powerful emotions and associations that are rooted deep down in the pioneering American soul, and grafted onto it a self-destructive lifestyle it wants to force down Americans' throats.

David Kupelian

I explained this goes back centuries as an old-time Islamic symbol, ... I told them we'd be a laughing stock if we did this.

Tom Burnett

Their bronzes and other artworks are hugely important to the PLA. Possession of great bronze statues is the traditional Chinese symbol of ultimate power. This is why the PLA wants to acquire great art from all over the world. It enhances their power at home and abroad.

Gisele Croes

Culture Day is a vital symbol of the centrality of Jewish life in Europe, ... It normalizes Jewish ritual and culture for the world we live in and helps show that we are both Jewish and European - and that the two sit perfectly comfortably, side by side.

Jonathan Joseph

It's the 900-pound gorilla that's weightless. It's an empty symbol. It's almost as if the nominee is a hologram.

Dennis Hutchinson

I think it could be a symbol for the rebuilding of New Orleans.

Doug Thornton

For the short-term, there is also I think a political symbol for the region that says we are working together and the noose around Iraq is closing.

Gerald Steinberg

We want to wear white as a symbol of peace. We want to make sure the community embraces the American flag and all the laws of this country. That's what we're trying to do.

Ben Monterroso

And the symbol of the phoenix represented our hope in the resurrection.

Dot Davis

It became a symbol for a noose.

Donna Hollen Bolmgren

You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.

Sophia Loren

The whole mindset of student athletes today is me, as opposed to we. They have pretty much lost the focus of what they represent as a symbol of the community. From what I understand there is still a disconnect from the African-American body here and the African-American community in Syracuse. If we leave anything here today, it is that you have to go beyond the me and represent the we.

Dwayne Walker

I am deeply saddened by the loss of my children's grandfather and my very dear friend. I loved big John with all my heart. ... Johnny Cash will, like Will Rogers, stand forever as a symbol of intelligence, creativity, compassion and common sense.

Rodney Crowell

I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I'm having the same insecurities. They don't go away just because they call you a sex symbol.

Shirley Manson

This building is a symbol, a message and a legacy, ... This is a place for future dreamers.

Jon Mills

A successful physical delivery with large volume is usually seen as an important symbol of the maturity of a futures market.

Lin Hui

Twenty years hence a curve or a symbol will be called as Pearson's, and nothing more remembered of the toil of the years.

Karl Pearson

Las Vegas is a hell of a lot bigger target than the Jefferson Memorial that they put all these big barricades around. What is more of a symbol of American decadence than Las Vegas?

Randy Larsen

I like that these characters aren't perfect. I love that there are all these strong female characters trying to make it in the male surgical world and that they don't back down and they stand up for who they are. Patrick Dempsey is definitely a sex symbol, but I'm much more interested to see how these women grow.

Andy Yardley

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bald eagles do not exist anywhere else on the planet. Bald eagles are our eagles. Nobody else can claim them. That's why they're our national symbol.

Jacques Nuzzo

The biggest issue in this election is postal privatization. It's the symbol of structural reform.

Takenori Kanzaki

The bridge is a big symbol today, ... If you want to build a bridge to those who are less fortunate, this is an opportunity to do that and make Michigan proud.

Jennifer M. Granholm

When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective.

Arundhati Roy

Despite my skepticism, I thought to myself, 'This is perhaps the only illustration or symbol of what could be the benefits of a co-operational, rather than a confrontational attitude'.

Mort Zuckerman

It definitely meant more after [September 11] as a symbol of freedom and liberty.

Nick Novak

[Sunday's Mass served as] a significant moment in the life of our archdiocese and the city of New Orleans, ... The cathedral serves as a symbol that transcends any one faith and speaks to our community as a whole. Today sends a sign of hope to our city, state and nation.

William Maestri

All my life I've been a symbol.

Queen Christina

Because of the crescent's prominent use as a symbol in Islam ? and the fact that the hijackers were radical Islamists.

Tom Tancredo

It was a symbol of plenty to the German people of old. A group of tourists from Germany explained the tradition to me, saying that the people believed if they had turnips planted or stockpiled after the harvest then they had no fears of going hungry, and it was thus a sign of good luck.

Mary Rankin

He was a symbol of Cuban fishing and of human brotherhood, thanks to all of his years of friendship with Hemingway.

Miguel Diaz

The imaging emits a white symbol which identifies whether the new cells generated are tendons or not.

Dr. Gadi Pelled

Whenever I'm not sure about something, the ethics of something, the question I ask myself is, 'What would Murrow have done? What would Murrow say?' It seems strange after all these years that I still have him as a kind of symbol and an emblem to live by, but I do.

Daniel Schorr

It's that iconic imagery of that sea of raised fists during a live performance. It's a symbol of unity and strength and at the same time there are elements of defiance and rebellion that are inherent in that raised fist symbol. It's just one of those iconic pieces of imagery from the life of rock 'n' roll.

David Draiman

He's a symbol of come out and play hard every night, just because anything can happen. And he's just a good person.

Jermareo Davidson

The black farmer, working hard for his own, became the living symbol of the strong, independent black man. Farming also allowed black families to move into other businesses, from funeral homes to preaching to construction, and thus served as the bedrock of all black wealth in America.

Juan Williams

I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.

John Thune

[Intermec and Symbol also have agreed to negotiate settlements to their other intellectual-property disputes. They'll conduct a] 90-day moratorium ... We expect to build more than 400 million inlays in 2006, so it was a good time to sit down and work things out.

John Bruno

These butterflies are the symbol of richness of biological diversity and marvelous scientific aspect.

Chip Taylor

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

Paul Claudel

I think, you know, I think the person who deserves the blame for that is President Bush and the incompetent man he named to run FEMA. Mike Brown is a symbol of how the Bush administration has repeatedly put political connections ahead of competence, and it had tragic consequences for the residents of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Josh Earnest

SCEPTER, n. A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents.

Ambrose Bierce

Even if the reality is, there's nothing more that he could have done back in Washington or anywhere else ... the symbol matters.

Norman Ornstein

I suggested [in 1966] that we use the panther as our symbol and call our political vehicle the Black Panther Party. The panther is a fierce animal, but he will not attack until he is backed into a corner; then he will strike out.

Huey Newton

I don't think he worked as a Nazi hunter as the Hollywood image would like it to be the case. He cultivated that myth because it gave a lot of weight to himself as a symbol, and also to his work.

Tom Segev

This senior class really turned the corner athletically and academically. They're a symbol for every child in Camden to follow. They've had a lot of adversity to live through -- including three head coaches -- but they were committed to athletics and academics.

Tom Hanson

He's a symbol that can appeal to a wide range of people. Because kids like him and parents don't dislike him, he becomes a common denominator.

Meryl Gardner

I think people are ready to forget about this storm and to move forward in their lives. And I think Mardi Gras is a symbol of all that.

Duncan Mckenzie

The original drawing of the chief was used by my alma mater, Towanda, for the symbol of the Towanda Redskins in 1954, ... I would like to present it my beloved town.

Bill Williams

They wanted a symbol. They wanted someone who openly supported their views of the Supreme Court. But they know nothing about her judicial philosophy.

Gloria Borger

Historically, the gold in the teeth has been a symbol of being that guy. It was something from the Old South. It usually was kind of looked upon as being a bit too overboard, a bumpkin who thought he had arrived.

Carl Taylor

It shows that people would like to have change, and she has become the symbol for that movement for change.

Jusuf Wanandi

Beyond the name, when you look at that symbol, nothing is Seminole about it.

Sheridan Murphy

In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had before, ... You took the fact that the monarch was head of the Church of England to mean that the British monarchy was itself a religious or moral institution and the monarchy became a symbol of national public morality.

David Starkey

It was a wonderful, vibrant place, and its loss was a big blow to the community. It was very much an anchor in the community. We see our school as a real symbol of its rebirth.

Jay Bowes

The return of our national symbol is a victory for wildlife, a victory for conservation and a victory for the Endangered Species Act.

Doug Inkley

That this movie uses the classic symbol of the American male the cowboy to promote this agenda is offensive to the vast majority of Americans.

Gary Cass

Is it because there is a genuine shift to coffee as a beverage of choice? Or is it the perception of coffee as something to [show off] if you're looking for a status symbol? Depending on which way that it runs, it's a different kind of a market.

George Koo

Bonds stood as the symbol of the tainted era, of its bitter contradictions and the great consequences.

Howard Bryant

We are very pleased to have obtained our ticker symbol so early after formation of the Bank. Having a market maker allows our staff to focus completely on banking and our clients' needs without the distraction of handling stock transactions.

Wes Sturges

That's why it's called the leaf of life, and seen as an important symbol. It only needs water and it will stay alive.

Wayne Modest

April is National Kite Month, and we as advocates can think of no better symbol than that of a kite to represent Independent Living for persons with disabilities.

Betty Johnson

Reagan is a symbol who calls the party to be something broader. The Republican Party is in many ways a very disunited party. In a way, by making Reagan a greater figure, you can create a greater unity.

David Frum

People are acting like this is a new issue but it is going to be one-for-one so I don't see any pop or decline in the stock -- it will just continue trading under a new symbol.

William Power

The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.

Primo Levi

VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Ambrose Bierce

He's a symbol, a symbol of a system that has run amok.

Ted Costa

I want to make the railway an antiwar symbol in order to remind the Japanese of the need to reflect on their past conduct.

Takashi Nagase

If he was out there hugging kids and feeling people's pain, he'd become a huge and important symbol.

Christopher Sands

I hope this will serve as a symbol of hope, not only for the children, but for the community. One person can make a difference by getting the ball rolling. This was my wish to be able to make a difference.

Rhonda Honegger

Indeed the SALT project has become an iconic symbol for what can be achieved in Science and Technology in the new South Africa.

David Buckley

The mural was significant because students used the mural as a rallying point [and] as a symbol of Latino pride and Latino struggles to make the experience of future Latino students at the University better. I started the ceiling and left it unfinished thinking that maybe someday I could come back and finish the ceiling.

Oscar Martinez

The way in which the leak investigation is being pursued is becoming a symbol of who was right and who was wrong about the war.

Ivo Daalder

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

Irwin Edman

Koizumi played a very clever game by kicking out the anti- reformers. His political success is so crucial to getting things done that foreign investors have good reason to see him as a symbol for change.

Haruo Shimada

There is no reason that any voice application will not be able to run on a Symbol device once all companies move to the standard Windows platform. From an equipment standpoint, there is audio capability in nearly all handhelds. They all can run voice or text-to-speech applications.

Mark Wheeler

These 10,000 are an extraordinary symbol of our country's will to be there, to participate in these Olympics.

Valentino Castellani

First thing I would do is pack that thing up and send it to Playboy magazine. I would not have that as a symbol of this village.

Duane Christensen

One guy asked me why we wouldn't just want to tear down the Dome because it harbors so many bad memories of the storm, but we had 30 years of good memories here before the hurricane. It could be a symbol for the rebuilding of New Orleans, something people could rally around.

Doug Thornton

I remember after the storm we would drive up and down the beach. Seemed like for 10 years or so we would see those steps going to nowhere and plainly cleaned-off cement slabs, ... For us, they were a symbol of the storm and its enormity.

Orrin Pilkey

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

Corita Kent

In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.

Max De Pree

It is a symbol of a higher standard, and they want their customers to see it and continue to see it in their facility.

John Ramirez

The house is a symbol of my achievement.

Sarah Harding

I do not prize the word "cheap." It is not a badge of honor. It is a symbol of despair. Cheap prices make for cheap goods; cheap goods make for cheap men; and cheap men make for a cheap country.

William Mckinley

As a symbol of my faith in my country that they were doing everything they could to get us released.

Christopher Stone

It's not really about money. It's about being centered. Money is kind of a symbol of how you are in your life and how you're going to be centered.

Joan Cusack

I believe the handwritten note has become a status symbol.

Julie Weiss

It's more symbol than substance.

David Sandalow

The exhibition is a beautiful way to connect to today's generation to whom Gandhi is nothing more than just a symbol of the state.

Tushar Gandhi

This is a success story. It's the national symbol and it's representative of conservation efforts that have worked. This is really why we're celebrating.

Tedor Whitman

There is an awful lot of anxiety among Republicans as to what may happen in 2006. I think there is a sense among a growing number of members that they have lost their way. Tom DeLay may become a symbol of what ails them.

Mike Franc

She was and is a symbol of pride for her country.

Beth Daniel

The carnation is a good symbol for a broad and open Left Party, which brings together the multitude of international branches which we are the expression of here in Sweden.

Lars Ohly

It gives us a symbol of credibility that they had not really given us. It pushed us up a notch in a lot of people's thinking.

Deborah Harry

The monarch has become a symbol for cross border co-operation in North America. Let's hope it doesn't become the symbol of our common failure to protect the environment.

Homero Aridjis

A candidate who votes for Roberts, opens themselves up to attack on the grounds that they are not a qualified standard bearer for the party, ... Hillary Clinton or any candidate can't take the Democratic Party for granted. If Roberts hands down some extreme rulings, a vote for Roberts becomes a symbol of the negative consequences of Democratic capitulation.

David Sirota

I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don't want to be a sex symbol.

Ben Affleck

It's very much a symbol of what's happening in South Australia.

Mike Rann

W e see the Mexican people being exploited by their own government. We see the Mexican flag not a symbol of culture, but as a symbol of government.

Roy Warden

In the first place, the market provision of 'security' generates its own paranoid demand. 'Security' becomes a ... prestige symbol. Secondly, as William Whyte has observed of social intercourse in New York, 'fear proves itself'. The social perception of threat becomes a function of the security mobilization itself, not crime rates.

Mike Davis

What we want her to do is strengthen the partnerships between civil societies and government, You are now the symbol of hope to many with noble expectations.

Joan Browne

The symbol of a reinvigorated France.

Tony Parker

At that time, flying the American flag above the rubble of homes and businesses was a visible act of determination and became the symbol for our community's recovery, ... That same phenomenon is occurring after Katrina.

John Mcfarland

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

Raquel Welch

Patrons from around the world have always been gearing together for benefits--it's the serendipity effect, ... You don't know who you're going to run into. It's the ultimate status symbol.

David Adler

We're a symbol of America. And we're there. We are armed. And we're in their country. That makes us easy to hate.

Donald Shepperd

What Congress did was much more symbolic than it was substantive, ... The law has not changed, because the law has always said that a signature is a symbol adopted with someone's intent to comply. It could be an X, a thumbprint, or even your company letterhead. The legal issue has always hinged on what you intend.

Benjamin Wright

That was very important to us. We wanted to have this in there as a symbol of bringing life to [Mars].

Joseph Palaia

Their comeback is a symbol that there are still wild areas left in the state.

Adrian Wydeven

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

Kathleen Turner

The 'movement' is paramount, the concept of 'family' is the symbol we wish to project.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

Regardless of whether there was a massacre or not, (the battle) became a symbol to rejuvenate the Patriot cause.

Fritz Hamer

We will begin promoting the Xbox 360 on TV, newspapers, and magazines. We also plan on promotions that integrate various forms of entertainment, such as sports, fashion, arts, and music. And as a symbol to our promotions, we will open an Xbox 360 Lounge, where people can experience the high-definition entertainment that will be offered by the Xbox 360.

Yoshihiro Maruyama

He has become a symbol of our inability to solve the problems in the Balkans. We would like to get rid of him but at the same time we are not willing to take the kind of military and other measures it probably would take to get rid of him.

Ivo Daalder

This is a symbol of our solidarity with the people of South Africa as they address the lingering effects of apartheid and as they confront the reality of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Mary Lester

The Mac's a symbol of a whole revolution, and most of us that participated in it from the beginning and believed in it bought into these new ideals of computers to really help people, and not something that you had to fight, memorize and learn, ... That whole revolution just continues in our hearts to this day.

Steve Wozniak

From this day forward, the Houston 1836 logo will be a symbol of a hardworking team. This is a team for Houston. If you live in Houston, you must like it here. If you like Houston, come out and support another Houston franchise.

Oliver Luck

Spock was the sex symbol. A lot of people think it was Kirk. But, no, it was really Spock.

Jolene Blalock

I don't even think it's about Darwin anymore. . . . I think Darwin has been used as a demonizing symbol.

Matthew Chapman

Too often we forget that when a soldier gives the ultimate sacrifice, there's a family back home who is suffering, ... This memorial should mean a lot not only for the veterans but also those they left behind. This is a great symbol of community pride.

Dr. Larry Roberts

The era of Berlusconi seen as a wizard who would solve the country's problems with a magic wand is over. But Berlusconi as the symbol of a social bloc, of interests and fears of the left that remain strong in this country, is not done.

Massimo Franco

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

Tommy Douglas

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

Carl Andre

I think it could be a symbol perhaps of the rebuilding of New Orleans. There are a lot of good memories in the dome too.

Doug Thornton

[Symbol Technologies is] not a household name but everybody knows their products. They're a bar coding company, so when you return an Avis car that's the bar coding that they're doing, ... They are a productivity improver. They need capital spending from corporate America but when that comes back, we think that the stock, which was at $40 two years ago, has about 50 percent upside.

David L. Katz

It could be a strong and powerful symbol of our relationship.

Jean Charest

Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

So it's a positive symbol of beauty.

Bjorn G. Amelan

Signs are a symbol of authority. They tell you when to go, what to do. No one really questions them. For an artist, it's totally interesting.

Steve Lambert

Mardi Gras is celebrated all up and down the coast, so it seemed like a real symbol of the region to me.

Nancy Cooper

She was a sex symbol, she was a pin-up symbol, ... You can't get away from it.

Lesley Stahl

The appropriateness of the design has been questioned by many people because of the crescent's prominent use as a symbol in Islam - and the fact that the hijackers were radical Islamists.

Tom Tancredo

It's sort of a symbol of us putting down roots.

Jill Davis

It certainly is a status symbol and it's big for the winner.

Harold Mitchell

Hers is one of the awards we look back on with great joy and satisfaction. Mother Teresa stands out, in a very positive way, as an example of true self-sacrifice in humanitarian work. She became a symbol to the world.

Francis Sejersted

How it is looked at and interpreted comes from one's own mind, and we cannot control how people think. If you want it to be a religious symbol, then you can see it as such.

Sharon Fisher

In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of blue-collar nostalgia for a tough leader.

Serge Schmemann

I don't know of a Republican coalition opposed to spending Social Security on retirement and only retirement; I think we can win that debate. But the amount is so small, it's more symbol than substance.

Steve King

A flag should be a symbol that unites all of those standing below it, ... One that every South Carolinian can look up to with respect, and admiration.

David Beasley

He's accomplished the impossible, ... He's turned the DPJ ... into a party that's against change, and he's turned LDP, a party that's resisted (change), into the symbol of reform.

Gerald Curtis

I never claimed to have any extraordinary talent, just maybe extraordinary curiosity. I can learn, I am learning, and I hope to become a proficient, eventually a good, actress. Several have made the transition from a sex symbol to being taken seriously - that's something I really yearn for.

Dorothy Stratten

They are purely a symbol of rugged individualism. They're a symbol of power but instead of being military, you are free to ride off into the sunset.

Valerie Steele

I think most people realize it's probably not a rock anybody stepped on to get off the boat. But it's a symbol, and as such I think it's important.

Ann Lainhart

A key issue for customers migrating from Gen 1 to Gen 2 protocols will be how the reader performs near multiple readers, ... As a leading company putting RFID to work in the marketplace, Symbol is proud to offer customers the promise of minimal interference and investment protection with the multi-protocol XR400 reader.

John Bruno

I had now made about 45 pictures, but what had I become? I knew all too well: a phallic symbol. All over the world I was, as a name and personality, equated with sex.

Errol Flynn

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

David Bowie

It's clear that the vast majority of the Tibetan population resists Chinese rule and, therefore, the Dalai Lama is the symbol of the struggle of people for independence.

Gerald Segal

Denim has always been an everyday symbol for style.

Ritu Kumar

King Hussein was one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century, a brave soldier who fought for peace, a clever man, warm-hearted and the symbol of good neighbourly relations.

Ezer Weizman

I don't consider myself a sex symbol.

Enrique Iglesias

How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got to find a symbol for, or maybe it was a concrete form that you have to simplify or distort to meet your ends, but that starting point must pervade the whole.

Emily Carr

The big images - like if there is a fire in your dream - suffice it to say, some major stressor in your life, something needs attention immediately. But what a particular symbol means to you - well, you can't get that from a book.

Edward O'malley

There will be no reverse in this decision, ... The Orient House has become a symbol of provocations, of almost endless activities against the law of Israel and against the status of Israel in the united city of Jerusalem and as such it had to be closed.

Ehud Olmert