It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones. — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
Therefore, teaching, talk and tale, however lucid or fascinating, effect nothing until self-activity be set up; that is, self-education is the only… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Only - only that, if you believe the tales, it's in the nature of our people to go to war and to… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Good Advice If your best friend's feeling tearful, Try not to be too cheerful. Just let her fill your ear full Of… — Beatrice Schenk de Regniers Copy Share Image
A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Legends of the Silver Stallion had been told for years now, whenever mountain stockmen met round the campfires or on the winding… — Elyne Mitchell Copy Share Image
Pure poetry in motion. A swift-moving, heartfelt tale of love and loss, two stories intersecting-an d connecting-by magic. Michelle Baker is a… — Trent Zelazny Copy Share Image
The Lewis and Clark tale has all the all the elements that one would want to put into a movie. It has… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of… — Lily Cole 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
My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but… — David Alan Grier Copy Share Image
Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had. — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
Blood in the water I sing, and one who shed it: deadliest hunger I sing, and one who fed it- weaving the… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
There was one person who greatly and directly benefited my career--my agent Virginia Kidd. From 1968 to the late nineties she represented… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind,… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Snow White has always been one of my favorite fairy tales growing up. To be able to say, "I'm going to be… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
