Aarne Thompson Quotes & Sayings

Wardrobe of Denial. Blanchie glanced — Barbara Kingsolver

Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play. — Max Eastman

There is no such thing as being good to your wife. — Gertrude Stein

It would be a sin to help you destroy yourself. — Leo Tolstoy

For a moment I felt the terror. The deep primeval terror of something one does not understand, something which is against nature or, at the least, against everything one has ever seen or known before. — Philippa Gregory

My prayer regimen is a small act of surrender, a practical way to deliberately pull my gaze from myself to my Savior - a lesson I learned years earlier on long car rides to news assignments but have now begun to put into daily practice. Eyes cannot look in two different directions. I want mine on Jesus - not on yesterday's failures or successes, not on today's agenda, and definitely not on the world's scorecards. — Jennifer Dukes Lee

Some people perceive Skinner to be complex. I just basically was trying to remember my lines, so I guess that's what they perceive as being complexity. — Mitch Pileggi

My mind's a machine gun, my body's the bullets and the audience is the target. — GG Allin

Aarne-Thompson-Uther index — Marina Warner

At that, every boy on that side of the hall let out a big cheer for the two of them. This went on for about three or four hours before the cold had got the better of the two of them. Without breaking any rooftop siege records, the bedraggled and wet pair came down into the arms of the awaiting riot screws. And surprisingly, for a change, they never suffered any beatings; they got taken to the digger and put on a rule, pending police investigation. Some nine months later, the two kings of the roof stood trial and received eighteen months apiece on top of their sentence ... oh, and the roofing contractor was ecstatically happy. — Stephen Richards

15 seconds of insane courage can change your life. — Rider Jacobs

Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature. But the universal consciousness of the real Ego transcends a million fold the self-consciousness of the personal for false ego. — Carl Jung