Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified. — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth,… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's.… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I don't believe in this fairy tale of staying together for ever. Ten years with somebody is enough. In ten years, you… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
“THE TWAIN DOTH MEET East and West are relative to their shared starting point Kamil Ali” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale... — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
“It would be nice to report she lived happily ever after till the end of her days. But such cheap, cop-out one-liners… — Jennifer Silverwood Copy Share Image
I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it… — Suzanne Shaw Copy Share Image
Most of the auditions I went on, I passed up the projects because I just wasn't interested. When I read A Knight's… — Shannyn Sossamon Copy Share Image
I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act. We will… — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Farewell, farewell," said the swallow, with a heavy heart, as he left the warm countries, to fly back into Denmark. There he… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
... I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Cassandra always hid when she read, though she never quite knew why. It was as if she couldn't shake the guilty suspicion… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
In some ways, Valiant Gentlemen grows out of Tales of the New World, my collection of short stories about explorers who lived… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
Myth is a tale once believed as truth; believed, it is not myth, but religion. A tale once religiously believed that has… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“None of the harvest tales started out as parasites. They were the most powerful pieces of the narrative, once upon a time.… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
I have listened to many tales in my life, and told a few of my own. If this has taught me anything,… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well.… — Stephen King 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
I was more aware initially of shows like Tales of the Unexpected. And the BBC used to put on a lot of… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending. — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs. — Carroll O'Connor Copy Share Image
I have nothing against people having work done, it is when I hear tale of girls of 16 queuing up to get… — Amanda Burton Copy Share Image
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions. — Paul Henderson Copy Share Image
Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry? — John Ford Copy Share Image
“In the entire history of the universe, there are many tales worth telling. ” — Matthew Kadish Copy Share Image
I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them. — Rupert Sanders Copy Share Image
“TRUST ADJUST An act that changes perception can elevate or lower integrity” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
