I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The first movie I can remember seeing was The Creature From The Black Lagoon. And, I can remember hearing a radio play… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
At most, recognizing that our history was inspired by many tales we now recognize as false should make us alert, ready to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
And that's the way of a real tale. Take any one that you're fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do. — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind. — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
It's no accident that Cinderella has been in the culture for thousands of years, and in cross cultures. I've traveled a bit… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I… — George Brandis 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 love seeing the Oscar films and epic dramas. But I'd rather watch a romantic comedy than any other kind of movie.… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think people are interested in anything that's a little bigger than life and that's colorful and - you know, what they… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe. And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
The media will spend weeks going through pay stubs for Bush's National Guard service in Alabama in the waning days of war,… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I'm sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I'm creating neither… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
In the fairy tale you mentioned last night, I would probably be the villain. But it's possible the villain would treat you… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image