Nate Silver Quotes

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

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

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

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

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.

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.

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

We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us.

Prateik means symbol so I symbolise certain things in my life.

Every character and person in life needs a voice and every once in a while I get to inhabit the voice of the misunderstood.

I worry about images. Images are what things mean.

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

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

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

A sign is always less than the thing it points to, and a symbol is always more than we can understand at first sight. Therefore we stop at the sign but go on to the goal it indicates; but we remain with the symbol because it promises more than it reveals.

It ain't what things actually are, it's all they stand for.

If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't.

The metaphors exist for the stories.

We don't want to be simply wandering about without some kind of reason, we want our presence here to have a purpose, and that we are not going to end here, we are going to proceed somewhere else, and also that we didn't begin here, that we began somewhere else and all that living, all that elaborate account of our presence seems to be quite basic to our nature and so this is what literacy taps into.

I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.

Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.

When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.

Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.