Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I'm not the sort that tells tales about what other people do', he said” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness. — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours? — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“Since no two days are the same,we must be entering life's classroom when we wake up each morning” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
I love visual stylists like Bob Fosse and Vincente Minnelli and Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger with The Red Shoes and The… — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own. — Andrew Mason Copy Share Image
Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them. — Silas Weir Mitchell Copy Share Image
For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing. — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
Rumour was the messenger Of defamation, and so swift, that none Could be the first to tell an evil tale. — Robert Pollok Copy Share Image
The human spirit is itself the most wonderful fairy tale that can possibly be. What a magnificent world lies enclosed within our… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's… — Camilla Lackberg Copy Share Image
...but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“People seem always actually to know, with a degree of pain that has required the comfort of fairy tales, that when you… — Anne Hollander Copy Share Image
the various earth odors all have a separate tale to tell, and the leaf mold of the woods bears a wholly different… — Mabel Osgood Wright Copy Share Image
The naturalist worldview is a good way to feel grounded and feel part of something that isn't based on fairy tales. It's… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Doesn't it get on my nerves when people say science doesn't know everything. Science knows it doesn't know everything otherwise it would… — Dara O Briain Copy Share Image
I grew up watching monster movies and horror movies, which I felt were like fairy tales and I think this always spoke… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
Mama, Mama, help me get home I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own. I found me a werewolf,… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across--each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip--is a coffee… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
That's the thing about a folk tale: It is always addressing incredibly key issues about how you should live and what the… — Benh Zeitlin Copy Share Image
When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“What are the tales?" Adrienne asked wryly. "His exploits are legendary!" "His conquests are legion. 'Tis rumored he's traveled the world accompanied… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Love's arms were wreathed about the neck of Hope, And Hope kiss'd Love, and Love drew in her breath In that close… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the… — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is! — Dziga Vertov Copy Share Image
Fairy tales cross generational lines, and how you respond to them depends on when in your life you're seeing them. — James Lapine Copy Share Image
A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
