“Baba Yaga: "... What are his powers" Mirror on the wall: "He reads” — Bill Willingham Copy Share Image
There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds. — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy. — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible. — Bill Haywood Copy Share Image
We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We are Bears, We are Not Suppose too be Afraid of the Dark & Dangerous Woods.” — Migdalia Torres Copy Share Image
Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another… — Zoe Lister-Jones Copy Share Image
History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The fable of Christ and his twelve apostles is a parody of the sun and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, copied… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
Human excellence, parted from God, is like a fable flower, which, according to Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out of paradise--severed from… — Charles Villiers Stanford Copy Share Image
I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
These are stories you hear... of people sitting in a mall and being spotted, and you think it will happen to you.… — Nimrat Kaur Copy Share Image
Surely all Americans have the right to give their money only to those causes which they support. But what kind of society… — Christopher McCandless Copy Share Image
The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is… — William Booth Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Science has never killed or persecuted a single person for doubting or denying its teaching, and most of these teaching have been… — Gratis P. Spencer Copy Share Image
“ The Prodigal Son They gave the deep end of their heart--a hue of crimson red, They whispered their desire and offered… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most… — Hypathia of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Through humility, soul-searching, and prayerful contemplation we have gained a new understanding of certain dogmas. The church no longer believes in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Going Gone Over stone walls and barns, miles from the black-eyed Susans, over circus tents and moon rockets you are going, going.… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image