Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of… — Aulus Persius Flaccus Copy Share Image
I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson. — Claire Coffee Copy Share Image
“Classic fairy tales do not deny the existence of heartache and sorrow, but they do deny universal defeat.” — Greenhaven Press Copy Share Image
Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Do you believe in fairy tales?" "What...what kind of fairy tales?" "The kind you aren't supposed to waste your life on. — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Richard Barager has written THE novel of the Sixties - a passion-filled, pitch-perfect, roller coaster of a tale about the decade that… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
And the wind will whip your tousled hair, The sun, the rain, the sweet despair, Great tales of love and strife. And… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I'm a romantic and I kinda believed in this fairy tale. And in some ways I think that's always been to my… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time,… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
Jennifer Fulwiler's story of finding God when you aren't looking for Him is a universal tale which will touch many hearts. With… — Raymond Arroyo Copy Share Image
There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Many of the enchanted things in the book are lamps, carpets, sofas, gems, brass rings. It is a rather different landscape than… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
It wasn’t like in the storybooks. No witches lurked at crossroads disguised as crones, waiting to reward travelers who shared their bread.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Undisputed ends when I return to the WWE in 2007. There is already 3 ½ years of material including the 3 best… — Chris Jericho Copy Share Image
The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general notion of… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
“The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut. But… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
This is a test, isn't it? It's like choosing out of three caskets in a fairy tale. Everyone knows the rules. You… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Always remember, me dear, whether you're listening to a tale or telling one: Every penny piece that's struck has two sides to… — E. M. Delafield Copy Share Image
I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“PATCHES' OF AUTHORITY Preteens Adhere, Teens Challenge, Hideout, Elderly Shun Kamil Ali” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering. — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb? — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
“We all need fairy tales to forget the tragedies and difficulties of life, even for a short time!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The difference between a fairy tale and a sea tale? A fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time". A sea tale… — Edith Widder Copy Share Image
“Remember that stories are more than just words, more than fairy tales. They are magic.” — Valya Dudycz Lupescu Copy Share Image
There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humor was the real salt in them. — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would… — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
