I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“If biscuits were stories, I'd bake a pan of piping hot fables right this second." (Bertie)” — Lisa Mantchev Copy Share Image
“As to classing it in the list of fables, the idea was out of the question.” — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes. — Aesop Copy Share Image
“. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin… — Edward Clodd Copy Share Image
We were in another planet and we were reaching for something closer to a fable. It was something fabulous. I started looking… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
the dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is… — Charles Warren Stoddard Copy Share Image
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified;… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Because When you write about people, you inevitably offend--but if you write about animals, the evil do not recognize themselves but the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I realized that Owen [Suskind] is completely brilliant, because he embraced and memorized all these classic Disney films - these fables that… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings are clearly filmwise (gold being discovered cinematically in each sequence ot mixed black-and-white… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most… — Hypatia Copy Share Image
There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is… — John Wain Copy Share Image
History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables.… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I have come to know that adversity really means the things in life that challenge us and cause us to work with… — Alvin R. Dyer Copy Share Image
“How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was France. He colonized her, exploited… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
My work is very eclectic. I write books that range from writing fiction, writing fable where I am very directly trying to… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The movies I make, I never see them as accurately portraying a life, but more like fables. — Bobcat Goldthwait Copy Share Image
I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things.… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
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