I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality. — Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh Copy Share Image
She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages. — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Then clear on a flute of purest gold A sweet little fairy played. And wonderful fairy tales she told and marvelous music… — Ida Rentoul Outhwaite Copy Share Image
Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a… — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in. — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone & its tale told. Today new… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Shark Tale feels borrowed, sampled and dittoed from the collective funniness of the past 10 years in studio-made animation. — Desson Thomson 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
This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
There's a tricky tone where you try to get some humor into a movie that's also a tough tale of murder and… — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an… — Danny DeVito Copy Share Image
Heather Lende's small town is populated with big hearts--she finds them on the beach, walking her granddaughters, in the stories of ordinary… — Jo-Ann Mapson Copy Share Image
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
O' beautiful for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Edward Said talks about Orientalism in very negative terms because it reflects the prejudices of the west towards the exotic east. But… — Craig Thompson 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
What a wonderful work Wagner has done for humanity in translating the toil of life into the readable script of music! For… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Stories come from violence, they come from sex. They come from death. They come from the dark places that everyone has to… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more… — Donna Jo Napoli Copy Share Image
I was visiting my mother in Florida when the September 11, 2001 attacks happened. I was working on The Tale of Despereaux… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“MENTAL LAMENT Anagram depicting life sentence for materialists Kamil Ali” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
