Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cobie Smulders

I'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and 'The Walking Dead,' which I like a lot more.

Charles Spurgeon

Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables

Brandon Boyd

Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind

Beeban Kidron

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

Carl Sagan

Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

Benjamin Franklin

Fiction or fable allures to instruction.

Abraham Cowley

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

Alberto Manguel

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.

Aesop

Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.

Carl Jung

The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.

Beeban Kidron

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

Christopher Moore

Ack! Parables. I hate parables.

Christopher Moore

Oh, I get it," I said. "It's a parable. Cute. Let's go eat.

Anna Julia Cooper

No man can prophesy with another's parable.

Ray William Johnson

If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion.

Simone Weil

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Thomas Hardy

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

Tullian Tchividjian

From the time God saved me at 21 years old, I've always been fascinated by the parables of Jesus.

Chinua Achebe

It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.

Bryce Courtenay

I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller.

Diablo Cody

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

Beeban Kidron

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

Edwidge Danticat

Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.

Bruce Boxleitner

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

Ashwin Sanghi

I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.

Alistair Maclean

I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.

Anne Lamott

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.