Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic. . . This proves that even nursery tales only echo an almost prenatal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.
Originally man was made in the image of God, but now his likeness to God is a stolen one. As the image of God man draws his life entirely from his origin in God, but the man who has become like God has forgotten how he was at his origin and has made himself his own creator and judge.
One has not understood until one has forgotten it.
He was an answer to a question she'd forgotten to ask.
The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.
A lot of times, people have forgotten about an album by the time it's released, because it leaked three months earlier. Very strange days we live in.
When warriors feel afraid they lack something, it is only because they are forgetful. They have forgotten how capable they truly are.
Do you know who I am? Why, have you forgotten?
So I cradle this average violin that knows Only forgotten showtunes, but argues The possibility of free declamation anchored To a dull refrain.
Forgotten history. You, however, are my present. (Varyk) Oh, goody. Do I have to wear a bow? (Fang)
Certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we find it easier to refer to their fictitious testimony than to that of a reality which we have almost entirely forgotten.
The women of the French Resistance astounded me. Isabelle and Vianne [from The Nightingale] are my homage to those brave and forgotten women.
Right. I'd forgotten about her. ' He shook his head. 'That keeps happening.
The past shouldn't be forgotten. It should be used as a guide for future situations and not used as a reason to avoid making difficult decisions. There was always a choice.
Stories first heard at mothers knee are never wholly forgotten.
I've spent so much time making sure I don't underestimate my opponents that I've forgotten it's just as dangerous to overestimate them as well.
In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation.
You can do nice things for people all of the time and it's never noticed but as soon as you make one mistake it's never forgotten.