Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Baudelaire

Everything for me becomes allegory

China Mieville

I don't like allegory.

Howard Mumford Jones

Nature seen from the point of view of common sense is commodity; from the point of view of reason it is an alphabet or allegory of divinity.

Gyorgy Ligeti

My father was a bank clerk. He was also a Utopian Socialist and he wrote a Utopian novel. It was a kind of allegory or fairy tale.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All perishable is but an allegory.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

Xun Zi

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

Yann Martel

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Abraham Lincoln

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

Ezra Taft Benson

There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life.

David A. Bednar

One of the ultimate ironies of eternity is that the adversary, who is miserable precisely because he has no physical body, invites and entices us to share in his misery through the improper use of our bodies. The very tool he does not have and cannot use is thus the primary target of his attempts to lure us to physical and spiritual destruction.

Joe Hart

The police were here 60 seconds after they attempted to break in.

Tony Blair

The police told me, and the security services back them up, that they may have stopped two further attempts since July 7, ... There are people we are tracking the whole time.

Anne Wilson Schaef

Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.

John C. Calhoun

I will not attempt to show that it would be a great evil to increase the patronage of the Executive. It is already enormously great, as every man of every party must acknowledge, if he would candidly express his sentiments.

David Horsey

What seems strange is that Obama elicits such extreme dislike when, in fact, he is an exemplary family man, and his policy positions would have made him a conventional liberal Republican not that long ago.

Curt Schilling

You just kind of have to realize that there are people that don't like you and, unfortunately, sometimes those people have a voice. Disliking me probably matches my dislike for him (Gomez), but I have a problem with people who don't have integrity and principle so that stuff happens. You just kind of just let it go.

Harry Gray

I would dislike seeing that yard full of cars. Vail doesn't want to park in their town.

Richard Flanagan

I love all forms of music. I even like music I dislike, because the music you dislike is like going to a strange country, and it forces you to rethink everything and to appreciate its particular joys.

Cyril Connolly

I have always disliked myself at any given moment; the total of such moments is my life

Yotam Ottolenghi

I have an intense dislike of doctrines, because you will always end up eating your words.

Mal Peet

I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories.

Loren Thompson

What you're seeing in these recent remarks is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of how widely disliked Rumsfeld is.

Graham Watson

Human rights are indivisible. Freedom and security are not alternatives, they go hand-in-hand ... Much as the public may dislike it, suspected terrorists have rights.

George Gregan

We're focusing enough on doing what we have to do to get the right result and send him off with the fairytale end.

Amos Oz

The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

Jeremy Bulloch

The 'Star Wars' series is a fairytale told in space,

Tony Mowbray

If he is to last 90 minutes he must learn when to run, when to pass and when to hold the ball. It's been a fairytale two weeks for him and it is up to me to keep his feet on the ground.

Michael Hudson

In order to be an economist these days, you have to participate in this fairytale that somehow we can recover and still make the banks rich. And it is a fairytale.

Mary J. Blige

When you know what pain is, and when you have to make a choice, you learn that it is a decision. People think it's a fairytale thing, love and happiness, but you have to work hard. And then - you feel it deeply.

Laini Taylor

She tasted of fairytales

Leo Tolstoy

… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.

Paul Di Filippo

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.

Amanda Lenhart

It debunks the myth of the tech-savvy boy,

Bryan Sykes

Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.

Kate Thompson

Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.

Ashwin Sanghi

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

Brigitte Bardot

The myth of Bardot is finished, but Brigitte is me.

Cassandra Clare

I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other thousands of years ago are still relevant now.

Barbara Ward

This submission also perpetuates the myth that women should submit and be subservient to their husbands,

Adam Savage

Failure is always an option.