I do not know if I really am a big star. And in fact that is not the most important thing for… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
Don't the great tales never end?" "No, they never end as tales," said Frodo. "But the people in them come, and go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that… — Felicity Kendal Copy Share Image
The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing - A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For those who immerse themselves in what the fairy tale has to communicate, it becomes a deep, quiet pool which at first… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Comedy and tragedy are so mixed up in life, Gilbert. The only thing that haunts me is that tale of the two… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Anthony Ryan is a new fantasy author destined to make his mark on the genre. His debut novel, Blood Song, certainly has… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
The poet Muriel Rukeyser said the universe is composed of stories, not of atoms. The physicist Werner Heisenberg declared that the universe… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Farewell, farewell," said the swallow, with a heavy heart, as he left the warm countries, to fly back into Denmark. There he… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Most of the auditions I went on, I passed up the projects because I just wasn't interested. When I read A Knight's… — Shannyn Sossamon Copy Share Image
I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act. We will… — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
“It would be nice to report she lived happily ever after till the end of her days. But such cheap, cop-out one-liners… — Jennifer Silverwood Copy Share Image
I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it… — Suzanne Shaw Copy Share Image
Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
I'm Jewish, I can say it. We're storytellers. We were the moneylenders... Therefore we tell great tales to get what we need.… — Patti Stanger Copy Share Image
There's a tale in the Caballa that suggests that the Angel of Death is so beautiful that upon seeing it (or him,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that… — David Richo Copy Share Image
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've always been into having stories told to me. I was a voracious reader, my father was also a teller of tales;… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movie 'A Bronx Tale'… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
My intention was to grapple with the metaphysical meaning behind Scheherazade and present that meaning in its essence. Scheherazade is the symbol… — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everybody expects the fairy tale - you're going to be together forever with somebody. I don't really subscribe to that. I'd love… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
'Robopocalypse' joins a proud tradition of techno-apocalyptic tales, stretching from high-flying Icarus, to Frankenstein's monster, and to many a giant radioactive creature… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
If you are a dreamer come in If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
In that moment, Lux felt complete for the first time. He hadn’t even realized anything was missing until he met her, but… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
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