Didn't you have any sadistic nannies who told you these tales to keep you quiet and well behaved at night? Heavens, what's… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
The right sort of gossip is a charming and stimulating thing. The Odyssey itself is simply glorious gossip, and the same may… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
It never ceases to amaze us that when we were in kindergarten they taught us that a frog turning into a prince… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard… — Linda Miles Copy Share Image
I've always been a happy-go-lucky person. I haven't got any dark tales, I didn't draw on my own past, I'm from a… — Vicky McClure Copy Share Image
Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
I slept in Uday Hussein's bed - that was just so strange. Went to Saddam's palace, was in a mortar attack -… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories;… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Your life is a sacred journey. It is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible,… — Caroline Adams Miller Copy Share Image
I've always loved fairy tales. I think they perhaps led me to theater rather than the other way around. As a child… — Mary Zimmerman Copy Share Image
The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
A famous anecdote concerning Cuvier involves the tale of his visitation from the devil—only it was not the devil but one of… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We've… — Pete Postlethwaite Copy Share Image
The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
I loved reading Grimm's fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
Animals are unpredictable things, and so our life is unpredictable. It's a long tale of little triumphs and disasters and you've got… — James Herriot Copy Share Image
But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Thus, seamed with many scars Bursting these prison bars, Up to its native stars My soul ascended! There from the flowing bowl… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient Mariner, who… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
It doth make a man better,' quoth Robin Hood, 'to bear of those noble men so long ago. When one doth list… — Howard Pyle Copy Share Image
That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
It's [Jack the Giant Slayer] one of those fairy tales your mom and dad read to you when you're little. Never once… — Eleanor Tomlinson Copy Share Image
“Tales within tales. Dreams within dreams. Pattern on pattern and path beyond path. For such short-lived folks, the human kind seem determined… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts to resolve.… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
I am not a great believer in fairy tales. Every woman should fight hard for her own happy endings. Although occasionally it… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
It is our stories [classic Disney films] that make us human - so Owen [Suskind] has become an expert in what connects… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
In the tale proper--where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incident--mere construction is,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
But, when tales of the cosmos are told, this period of ours may always be recalled as that in which men first… — Nigel Calder Copy Share Image
I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
![“It's [Jack the Giant Slayer] one of those fairy tales your mom and dad read to you when you're little. Never once did I imagine myself in it. It's just phenomenal. Words just can't really describe it. It brings the biggest smile to my face.” quote by Eleanor Tomlinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/300/eleanor-tomlinson-15329_dad_it-s-jack-the-giant-slayer-one-of-those_1047285.jpg)
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