Aesopian Quotes & Sayings

Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that's about it. — Diane Lane

Heaven's Bakery help them all. — Jamie Farrell

Expertise is simply the wisdom that emerges from cellular error. Mistakes aren't things to be discouraged. On the contrary, they should be cultivated and carefully investigated. — Jonah Lehrer

I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that. — Madeleine Peyroux

Love is a tempestuous mistress.
And none of us shall ever master her. — Lisa Ann Sandell

I should have" is one of the most tragic phrases in the English language. Live while you can. — Michael A. McLellan

Footnotes
little dogs yapping at the heels of the text — William James

The language of these Soviet show trials ... could only be understood in the Aesopian imagery of the closed Bolshevik universe of conspiracies of evil against good in which 'terrorism' simply signified 'any doubt about the policies or character of Stalin.' All his political opponents were per se assassins. More than two 'terrorists' was a 'conspiracy' ... — Simon Sebag Montefiore

Were they all just stories whose endings had already been written, the dates of their deaths pinned to the page with periods? — Traci Chee

Plato has given to all posterity the model of a new art form, the model of the novel--which may be described as an infinitely enhanced Aesopian fable, in which poetry holds the same rank in relation to dialectical philosophy as this same philosophy held for many centuries in relation to theology: namely the rank of ancilla. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is one God. The Jews and the Christians have no monopoly on God. I'm speaking about the same God the Hindus talk about, the same God the Muslims talk about, the same God that the Taoists and the Confucians talk about. — Marianne Williamson

Censorship is not an occupation that attracts intelligent, subtle minds. Censors can and often have been outwitted. But the game of slipping Aesopian messages past the censor is ultimately a sterile one, diverting writers from their proper task. — J.M. Coetzee

Sleep is the best time to repair, but it's hard to get a good night's rest when we don't dial the inner chatter down. — Kris Carr