Aesop Quotes

Slow and steady wins the race.

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• Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Architecture
  • Building

• I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Girl
  • Weird
  • Beach

• It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Easy

• The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Action
  • Star

• Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Architecture
  • Very
  • Tough

• The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Important
  • Man
  • Opportunity

• The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Want
  • Passion
  • Talent

• There are 12 million illegal immigrants in this country - drawing welfare benefits, sending their children to public schools, and pushing down wages for American workers - but the problem extends well beyond amnesty and open borders.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Country
  • Children
  • American

• Our goal was to show people a vision of food they hadn't seen before. So, I had this idea of... let's cut all these things in half, and show a picture of the food in the pan, in the oven.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Food
  • Vision

• All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Home
  • Want
  • India

• I don't think Twitter is a platform to build your confidence on at all. Not at all.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Think
  • Confidence
  • Platform

• I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily aware that their world is falling apart.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • World
  • Broken
  • Young

• I'm a real people-pleaser.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • People
  • Real

• The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Book
  • Sunshine
  • Twilight

• I'm just interested in finding out what the hell goes. I mean do you have to be a goddam bohemian type, or dead, for Chrissake, to be a real poet? What do you want - some bastard with wavy hair?

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Real
  • Hair

• History teaches us that war is not inevitable. Once again, it is for us to choose whether we use war or some other method of settling the ordinary and unavoidable conflicts between groups of men.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Men
  • War
  • History

• Persuasion hung upon his lips, and the elements of Logick and Rhetorick were so blended up in him, - and, withall, he had so shrewd guess at the weaknesses and passions of his respondent, - that NATURE might have stood up and said, - 'This man is eloquent.'

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Up
  • Nature

• The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • World
  • Great

• I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.

  

  Brenda Lee
  • Singing

• I have always loved food, and for me, even if I was on a beach, I would be cooking food every day.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • Food
  • Cooking
  • Beach

• I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.

  

  Jeannette Walls
  • Pretty
  • Morning

• The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it.

  

  Plutarch
  • Mind
  • Act
  • Misbecomes

• Slow and steady wins the race.

  

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