Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Winning an award is a great feeling but winning the Vodafone Crossword Popular Choice Award is particularly exhilarating because it is based… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
...but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
Europe is often held up as a cautionary tale, a demonstration that if you try to make the economy less brutal, to… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The language of the novel differs from the just-the-facts language of the old tales. It's robust and earthy, sometimes even baroque. — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn.. — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups. — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
There is no more terrible woe upon earth than the woe of the stricken brain, which remembers the days of its strength,… — Ouida Copy Share Image
It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
You cannot make a social-consciou s picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the… — Fritz Lang Copy Share Image
For instance, dragons are deeply revered by the Chinese. According to legend they have megapowers that include weather control and life creation.… — Jennifer Rardin Copy Share Image
Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Steve MCQueen created an entire family to tell one man's tale and I am delighted that so many of this family have… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Of all the tall tales, I think my favorite is the one about Eli Whitney and the interchangeable parts. — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they… — Wayne Thomas Batson Copy Share Image
I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the 'Tale of Two Cities' by providing real opportunity… — Bill de Blasio Copy Share Image
Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The Islamic terror threat is so fierce, unrelenting and barbaric that we tell ourselves fairy tales about how these ruthless acts are… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
