#totem

A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx. ↗

— Saul Steinberg

#beautiful woman #madonna #only #painted #queen

Animals are not only beholders of great beauty, but they are also beholders of ancient wisdom. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#animal-totem #animal-wisdom #beauty #beholders #inspiration

The more I work with Nature and totemism, the more church is everywhere. ↗

— S. Kelley Harrell

#shamanism #totemism #nature

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#african-american women #american women #bottom #colour #get

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go. ↗

— Andy Roddick

#far #go #pole #seventh #sixth

Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think. ↗

— Barry Zito

#comes #god #people #pole #pray

You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion. ↗

— Emily Carr

#absolutely #attached #depicting #detail #every

The Indians did not like to see anything odd -- a white squirrel, for instance. . . . They thought such oddities were messages, were omens of evil. . . . And the Indians put a great deal of faith in dreams. ↗

— Karen Joy Fowler

#omens #totems #dreams

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#fashionable #longer #masks #new #new york

You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole. ↗

— Andrew Bogut

#australian #because #different #ends #football