But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Animals are unpredictable things, and so our life is unpredictable. It's a long tale of little triumphs and disasters and you've got… — James Herriot Copy Share Image
Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
I loved reading Grimm's fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I am not a great believer in fairy tales. Every woman should fight hard for her own happy endings. Although occasionally it… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts to resolve.… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
“Tales within tales. Dreams within dreams. Pattern on pattern and path beyond path. For such short-lived folks, the human kind seem determined… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
The great thing about the Cthulhu shared-world setting is that no one owns the copyright, so I'm not constrained by publisher conventions,… — David Conyers Copy Share Image
The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest nursery fairy tale-as the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Sharona Muir has written a gripping personal memoir about her odyssey to rediscover and reclaim her father. Along the way she uncovers… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
To portray an iconic character has been brilliant in itself, and to be able to do that on a show like 'Once… — Robbie Kay Copy Share Image
“Then you know that Sam was the true hero of the tale,” Sanya said. “That he faced far greater and more terrible… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind,… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Rosanne Daryl Thomas's tale of her enchantment by bees is a delight to read. It also contains close observations of the natural… — Janet Lembke Copy Share Image
I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
It's [Jack the Giant Slayer] one of those fairy tales your mom and dad read to you when you're little. Never once… — Eleanor Tomlinson Copy Share Image
That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
It doth make a man better,' quoth Robin Hood, 'to bear of those noble men so long ago. When one doth list… — Howard Pyle Copy Share Image
Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I've always been a happy-go-lucky person. I haven't got any dark tales, I didn't draw on my own past, I'm from a… — Vicky McClure Copy Share Image
All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard… — Linda Miles Copy Share Image
It never ceases to amaze us that when we were in kindergarten they taught us that a frog turning into a prince… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
The right sort of gossip is a charming and stimulating thing. The Odyssey itself is simply glorious gossip, and the same may… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We've… — Pete Postlethwaite Copy Share Image
I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
Don't Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
[Frida Farell] also wanted the film to serve as a cautionary tale for young women - to say, "Be careful when an… — Rudolf Buitendach Copy Share Image
Kindred’s tale is a romantic, mature, and lyrical collage of heaven, hell, and a magical royal legend. The combination is divinely—and demonically—inspired. — Alethea Kontis Copy Share Image
Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop… — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
Therefore, teaching, talk and tale, however lucid or fascinating, effect nothing until self-activity be set up; that is, self-education is the only… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
When I was doing 'Tales from Hollywood' at the National, I was invited to dinner by the choreographer, Kenneth MacMillan. He told… — Michael Gambon Copy Share Image
She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
![“It's [Jack the Giant Slayer] one of those fairy tales your mom and dad read to you when you're little. Never once did I imagine myself in it. It's just phenomenal. Words just can't really describe it. It brings the biggest smile to my face.” quote by Eleanor Tomlinson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/300/eleanor-tomlinson-15329_dad_it-s-jack-the-giant-slayer-one-of-those_1047285.png)
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