Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales. — Matt Prior Copy Share Image
I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me. — Amanda Seyfried Copy Share Image
“You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Everything starts with fishermen's tales. Everywhere you go the fishermen talk. — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale. — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
Folk tales are my favourite form of story telling. They not only just adjust the reader according to the world it is… — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
Only - only that, if you believe the tales, it's in the nature of our people to go to war and to… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
I liked that sort of thing, those one-off stories like 'Tales of the Unexpected,' 'Hammer House of Horror,' 'The Twilight Zone' and… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
You can believe in originals only if you just don't know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Cassandra always hid when she read, though she never quite knew why. It was as if she couldn't shake the guilty suspicion… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Myth is a tale once believed as truth; believed, it is not myth, but religion. A tale once religiously believed that has… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
... I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“One day', he said, 'the King of the Butterflies sent an emissary to discover the nature of fire. Some time later the… — José Eduardo Agualusa Copy Share Image
The first movie I can remember seeing was The Creature From The Black Lagoon. And, I can remember hearing a radio play… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Some fairy tales end with the girl marrying the prince... some start there. — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
