I'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and 'The Walking Dead,' which I… — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
And when life's sweet fable ends, soul and body part like friends; no quarrels, murmurs, no delay; a kiss, a sigh, and… — Richard Crashaw Copy Share Image
Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Somebody's been feeding the boy fables. Probably the king's niece. Humph. Nice girl. Too many romantic notions, though.” — Patrick W. Carr Copy Share Image
India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils ... for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully hate and… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“If you listen to the fables in your childhood, that is great; if you listen to the fables when you grow up,… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I love 'Jungle Book' and all the classics growing up, but what I learned about this is that these Disney films are… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
The story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf is not a meaningless fable. The founders of every State which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to… — Edward Gargan Copy Share Image
Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. This is a mental illness. It is like looking through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars.… — Joo Won Copy Share Image
“I’m surprised a person with your experience in telling elaborate fables should have difficulty in thinking up such a simple tale, but… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“They are angry with me, because I know what I am." Said the little eagle. "How do you know that they are… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
That's the problem with them fables, they're putting animals together that wouldn't meet. I don't know where a scorpion is knockin' around… — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New… — Thomas Paine 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
When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even… — George Perkins Marsh Copy Share Image
Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith. — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. — Beeban Kidron Copy Share Image
So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
For me, "Zoo" has always been a fable. It has nothing to do with realism. It's a fable about what man is… — James Patterson 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
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