She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
There in seclusion and remote from men The wizard hand lies cold, Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen, And… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
My models were oral, were storytellers. Like my grandmothers and my aunts. It's true, a lot of people in my life were… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Romance novels are tales of brave women taming dangerous men. They are stories that capture the excitement of that most mysterious of… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales… — Stanley Kubrick 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
The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman,… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old… — Anonymous 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
Careful the spell you cast, not just on children. Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see And turn against… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I believe that our lives, just like fairy tales - the stories that have been written by us humans, through our own… — Lucinda Riley Copy Share Image
A generic vampire tale in the Underworld vein that comes closer to the infamous Van Helsing than a memorable re-interpretation of a… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The passion for travelling is, I believe, instinctive in some natures. We have seen men persevere in their enterprises against the most… — James Holman Copy Share Image
[T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the… — Greg Peterson Copy Share Image