As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
O sleep, we are beholden to thee, sleep; Thou bearest angels to us in the night, Saints out of heaven with palms.… — Jean Ingelow Copy Share Image
Of those, the only one that really stands out for me is Tales From The Darkside, for a couple of reasons, one… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy… — Jay Heinrichs Copy Share Image
Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one of his… — David Anthony Durham Copy Share Image
Is it because you are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The greatest sci-fis, in my mind, are two things: They're what-ifs - what if this happened, and you get to see it… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“One Autumn night, in Sudbury town, Across the meadows bare and brown, The windows of the wayside inn Gleamed red with fire-light… — Anonymous 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
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
Seventeen years after its intial release, The Empire Strikes Back is still as thrilling and involving as ever. Because of the high… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones; Who, though they cannot answer my distress, Yet in some sort they are better… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about… — Eazy-E Copy Share Image
Some writers later, describing the events of that night and day, wrote that Wan'yen of the Altai had seen a spirit-dragon of… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
The magic is as wide as a smile and as narrow as a wink, loud as laughter and quiet as a tear,… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“A myth is 'a narrative involving supernatural or fancied persons embodying popular ideas or social phenomena.' Women love telling stories . .… — Lucy O'Brien Copy Share Image
The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug… — Abigail Spencer Copy Share Image
But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Don't just tell me a mystery; give me a world. Suzanne Myers delivers a hurricane-ravaged island shimmering with atmosphere and dense with… — Judy Blundell Copy Share Image
Leonard Cohen can give you "Leonard Cohen" - the self-deprecating wit, the slow, considered speech, the perfectly-honed anecdote - Tom Waits is… — Sylvie Simmons Copy Share Image
Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I dream of working with iconic directors such as Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson - so I'm setting… — Dree Hemingway Copy Share Image
I'm always like, 'I can't believe I sound like my mother.' I remember running out of the house telling, 'Put your shoes… — Eileen Davidson Copy Share Image
I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various… — Bob Schieffer Copy Share Image
Helen Tse tells a gripping tale of struggle, laughter, love and food that marks Sweet Mandarin as a must read book. It… — Ken Hom Copy Share Image
The greatest tales, well told, awaken the fears and longings of the listeners. Each man hears a different story. Each is touched… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Madame Bovary is timeless. It is not just about the female condition in France in the 1840s. It's not a simple cautionary… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image