With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In college, I became interested in folk tales and fairy tales. Gradually I became more and more interested in the underlying meaning… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
People aren’t interested in the truth, Dafar. They’re interested in what keeps them safe. They’re interested in being looked after. They’re interested… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
One of the basic motifs in fairy tales is that you find the poor and unfortunate along the side of the road,… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
And when we are with Alex, I might as well not be there. They speak in a language of whispers and giggles… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
There have been brilliant satires about the tax bureaucracy before, from the Beatles song ‘The Taxman’ to the film ‘Harry’s War,’ but… — John Fund Copy Share Image
Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused -- hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science,… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
In the sixth grade, I auditioned for a play called 'Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.' I got the lead, and I… — Michael Mosley Copy Share Image
I think Gov. Romney and Congressman Ryan are living in a fairly tale land on their energy policy. — Ken Salazar Copy Share Image
Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Photography is a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness with… — Luigi Ghirri Copy Share Image
Richard Gavin is one of the bright new stars in contemporary weird fiction. His richly textured style, deft character portrayal, and powerful… — S. T. Joshi Copy Share Image
It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
So, as much as it is about this continuing war, the reinstated draft, and their individual views, it's really sort of a… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Rosanne Daryl Thomas's tale of her enchantment by bees is a delight to read. It also contains close observations of the natural… — Janet Lembke Copy Share Image
The children know all about everything so well that it never occurs to them to play at the situations in any one… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
