Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago. — Thomas Haynes Bayly Copy Share Image
“You are far too stolid and unimaginative, Watson, to invent a tale like that.” — James Lovegrove Copy Share Image
Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
"What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I love the idea that people are listening to "Tales" during all types of activities. Knitting in their favorite chair, rock climbing,… — Glenn McQuaid Copy Share Image
For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record. — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress,… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller. — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make to them; a man may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in… — Terrence Rafferty Copy Share Image
I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy… — Willa Cather 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
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
This is a test, isn't it? It's like choosing out of three caskets in a fairy tale. Everyone knows the rules. You… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a… — James Lee Burke 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
“I wonder if anyone will know what I mean when I say that some people make the world seem like a large… — Tales of Mere Existence Copy Share Image
Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I published my first book in 1982 - a collection of Irish folklore called Irish Folk & Fairy Tales. It is still… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
