Aesopian Animal Crossword Quotes

#1. Lots of artists who paint have the experience to one degree or another ... where their thinking doesn't precede their doing ... It's a funny thing, what I really hate yet I have to go through with it, is the preparation.

Philip Guston

#2. We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#3. Great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. When sorrow is deepest all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.

Rabindranath Tagore

#4. I always had more allergies toward the superhero comics than the others. I thought those were aimed more toward the people who would beat me up.

Art Spiegelman

#5. Kids need quantity time: the myth that a small amount of focused attention is just as good simply because it's labeled quality is merely a means to rationalize being away.

Diane Medved

#6. The best fighters don't worry about what the other man may do. And if they keep things moving fast enough, the other man is too busy to do much thinking.

Erle Stanley Gardner

#7. That should be the goal, is that every kid in every neighborhood, despite whatever challenges they may face, are getting a great education in our public schools.

Michelle Rhee

#8. Jasper to her. I was obliged

Henry James

#9. Year's end, all
corners of this
floating world, swept.

Matsuo Basho

#10. Etymologically, a disaster is a bad star.

Marilynne Robinson

#11. I can't help but find it both painful and beautiful that Warner lost a mother and gained two brothers in the same week.

Tahereh Mafi

#12. In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

Mason Cooley

#13. Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody.

Moms Mabley