Scriitori De Fabule Quotes & Sayings

Contrary to what President Obama said in his inaugural address, going on Medicare and food stamps does not strengthen us. Just ask people who are fourth-generation welfare recipients. — Mark Skousen

A composition - and every work of art is one - is created in a wondrous interplay between imagination and reason, or between mind and reflection. For there will always be an element of chance in the creative process. — Jostein Gaarder

When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them. — Nelson Mandela

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom. — Jean Paul

Eleanor was charming. That is to say, her manner seemed designed to merit that description: she displayed towards us a sort of girlish archness, such as a doting father might have found captivating in an only daughter at the age of eight. The effect was as of attempting to camouflage an armored tank by icing it with pink sugar: stratagem doomed to failure. — Sarah Caudwell

I'm tired," she said. "I want to go home." Home. Did she even have a home? — Tiffany Reisz

It seems to be hard wired into our pleasure centres to move to music. — George C. Marshall

I love designing costumes that I can actually construct, working to create an environment that people want to be in. — Colleen Atwood

Energy can be created and destroyed. And God is energy. — John L. Steadman

I say novelist, not writer. The novelist is one who, according to Flaubert, seeks to disappear behind his work. — Milan Kundera