Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
A Chinese tale tells of some men sent to harm a young girl who, upon seeing her beauty, become her protectors rather… — Taylor Wang Copy Share Image
When you're late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love's-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When most people return from Europe, they tell tales of all the sites they saw, the shopping, the entertainment, etc. Jews, on… — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
As a writer, the ideal job is the one that allows you time and mental space away from it. Teaching seemed to… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
The kid in the episode [of Tales From The Darkside ] was played by Christian Slater! He was all of about 12… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
Anyone who loved Tuesdays with Morrie should delight in reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom has populated his… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I credit that eight years of grammar school with nourishing me in a direction where I could trust myself and trust my… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once." "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
One might get the impression that I recommend a new methodology which replaces induction by counterinduction and uses a multiplicity of theories,… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
I had a cup of tea with Michael Howard after my appointment shortly after I became Home Secretary, and without telling tales… — Theresa May Copy Share Image
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Once you fall for someone, their smell can be a powerful thing. Women will wear their boyfriends' T-shirts, and throughout tales in… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial… — Pat Brown Copy Share Image
In crime fiction, I just don't write the parts that aren't a thriller and it's exactly the same in my TV reporting… — Hank Phillippi Ryan Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale… — Sei Shonagon Copy Share Image
Don't believe those tales you hear about my being all-in. Wait until you see me in action for your team and then… — Vic Willis Copy Share Image
People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
Good Advice If your best friend's feeling tearful, Try not to be too cheerful. Just let her fill your ear full Of… — Beatrice Schenk de Regniers Copy Share Image
And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.' Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?' Yeah, but in fairy tales,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make to them; a man may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, love is such a normal thing, and everyone deals with it. Just because it's a different… — Selena Gomez Copy Share Image
The Islamic terror threat is so fierce, unrelenting and barbaric that we tell ourselves fairy tales about how these ruthless acts are… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows;… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
A sense of humor is rare. It isn't telling a joke about how there are three ways to get to heaven. It's… — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident. — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
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Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
![“The kid in the episode [of Tales From The Darkside ] was played by Christian Slater! He was all of about 12 or so, but I've run into Christian many times since then, and he always does his line from Tales From The Darkside whenever he sees me.” quote by Brent Spiner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4f6/brent-spiner-2999_christian_the-kid-in-the-episode-of-tales-from-the_2039167.jpg)
