In Grimm's fairy tales, you kiss a frog and in two seconds, it becomes a prince. That is a fairy tale. In… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
There are so may ways to kills yourself, they're just old-fashioned with their permanganate: do you think I'd take permanganate? I wouldn't… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I mentioned before, these [classic Disney films] are classic mythological tales, a hero's journey, and have been told for thousands of years.… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
In The Tale of Despereaux, there is a lot of darkness, a lot of despair. There's also a lot of light, redemption,… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
However wretched her origins, she chose freely to continue her crimes against us from the moment she woke to this life. It… — Catherynne M. Valente 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
For Hell and the foul fiend that rules God's everlasting fiery jails (Devised by rogues, dreaded by fools), With his grim, grisly… — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales represent hundreds of years of stories based on thousands of years of stories told by hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they're fairy tales and lies. This is the… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and… — Rick Moody 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
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
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
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
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
Celebrating historic triumphs is a favorite pastime for many Turks. Tales of how Turkic peoples emerged from Central Asia, crossed the steppes… — Stephen Kinzer 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
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
“Rage Against the Dying Light is my fairy tale, even though it is based on a true story. For everyone knows that… — Jan Surasky 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
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
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![“Seventeen years after its intial release, The Empire Strikes Back is still as thrilling and involving as ever. Because of the high quality of the original product, it doesn't show a hint of dating. Neither [Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope nor Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi] were able to…” quote by James Berardinelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ea0/james-berardinelli-18367_able_seventeen-years-after-its-intial-release_477730.jpg)
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