The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Surely she knows --like I do--that fairy tales are just stories. That happy endings aren't real.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing. — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
Rumour was the messenger Of defamation, and so swift, that none Could be the first to tell an evil tale. — Robert Pollok Copy Share Image
I love visual stylists like Bob Fosse and Vincente Minnelli and Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger with The Red Shoes and The… — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them. — Silas Weir Mitchell Copy Share Image
Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own. — Andrew Mason Copy Share Image
I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better - time,… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the… — Ernie Harwell Copy Share Image
I've always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full… — Sara Sheridan 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
It won't happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill's lunch. Breakups seldom do. It will unfold slowly, one little tell-tale… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Brendan O’Meara’s Six Weeks in Saratoga is a victory to be savored by those who treasure good writing in general and tales… — Madeleine Blais Copy Share Image
If we assiduously cultivate our powers of exaggeration, perhaps we, too, shall obtain the Paradise of Liars. And there Raphael shall paint… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also,… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
Away! Away! The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black arms… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. The tales of rough usage are for the most part exaggerations, as… — Joshua Slocum Copy Share Image
Uh-uh, dude. I tried it your way with the dating and the girls and the kissing and the drama, and man, I… — John Green Copy Share Image
Perhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the story was more than a single film could hold.… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of… — Aulus Persius Flaccus Copy Share Image
I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson. — Claire Coffee Copy Share Image
“Classic fairy tales do not deny the existence of heartache and sorrow, but they do deny universal defeat.” — Greenhaven Press Copy Share Image
Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering. — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb? — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
“PATCHES' OF AUTHORITY Preteens Adhere, Teens Challenge, Hideout, Elderly Shun Kamil Ali” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
“We all need fairy tales to forget the tragedies and difficulties of life, even for a short time!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The difference between a fairy tale and a sea tale? A fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time". A sea tale… — Edith Widder Copy Share Image
Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Richard Barager has written THE novel of the Sixties - a passion-filled, pitch-perfect, roller coaster of a tale about the decade that… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
