The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales,… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
We have concluded that the rocks here were once soaked in liquid water. It changed their texture, and it changed their chemistry.… — Steve Squyres Copy Share Image
For a while I got into the South Pacific theater of World War II. I read "American Caesar" by William Manchester, the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,'… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“What I mean is, all the terrible things that happen in fairy tales seem real. Or not real, but genuine. Life is… — Polly Shulman Copy Share Image
Kids know they can't make it alone, yet at the same time, built into each one of us, is a survival ethic.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live,… — Roberto Rossellini Copy Share Image
I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I had always been a great talker and teller of tales. 'You should put a lock on that tongue of yours. It's… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams… — Ron Franscell Copy Share Image
There was one person who greatly and directly benefited my career--my agent Virginia Kidd. From 1968 to the late nineties she represented… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history,… — Stan Sakai Copy Share Image
Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
“There are tales that rise like the early sun, breathe, and take on a life of their own. There are ones that… — Edwin Fontanez Copy Share Image
“Ever since Eliza had discovered the book of fairy tales . . . had disappeared inside its faded pages, she'd understood the… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales of our elders who… — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
There seems to be a real taste for the fantastical these days. People like to get back into their imaginations. Maybe there's… — Sasha Roiz Copy Share Image
Both 'Consenting Adults' and 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revolve around the economic stresses of the '90s. They are about what people do when… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Bare Foot Folk and is full of really interesting songs, Ange Hardy takes folk tales and creates new folk songs that sound… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales,… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
It's no accident that Cinderella has been in the culture for thousands of years, and in cross cultures. I've traveled a bit… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what is yet to come… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
I often visit Maria Tatar's 'The Grimm Reader' for a cold dose of courage. Her translations come from the Brothers Grimm, whose… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Jokes spread around the world and embed themselves in our shared culture; the most resonant of them get lodged in the language… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own… — Emile Chartier Copy Share Image
