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 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

• 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

• 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

• As I say, 'Every tackle's nightmare is third and long.'

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • Long

• There's no way you can imagine going from kids in high school to being the best band in the world.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • World
  • School
  • Kids

• I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Relationship

• As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened.

  

  Jerry Costello
  • People
  • Work
  • History

• I saw people, and I can't name them of course, that maybe were skeptical at first that were really sold on Donald Trump.

  

  John Fleming
  • People
  • Trump

• To cut out every negative root would simultaneously mean choking off positive elements that might arise from it further up the stem of the plant. We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Positive

• When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime writer, Ross Macdonald, did - crank out a book a year. The only problem - and it was a considerable one - was that I stank.

  

  Linwood Barclay
  • Book
  • Dream

• Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is lyrical prose that uses the tricks of poetry, such as dense imagery. This is a big topic of debate in poetry land. There's no perfect definition.

  

  Campbell McGrath
  • Poetry
  • Debate
  • Prose Poem

• Slow and steady wins the race.

  

  Aesop