Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Jennifer Fulwiler's story of finding God when you aren't looking for Him is a universal tale which will touch many hearts. With… — Raymond Arroyo Copy Share Image
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
“All those tales were told right here, one after the next, each informing the one that came after. History isn't a tale… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
When I began work on my first book, The River of Doubt, which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelts 1914 descent of… — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
Call it whatever you need to call it to make it feel good to you. But the fact of the matter is,… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
I'm a romantic and I kinda believed in this fairy tale. And in some ways I think that's always been to my… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
A younger sister is someone to use as a guinea-pig in trying sledges and experimental go-carts. Someone to send on messages to… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
Frankly, Django is an American story that needs to be told, when you think of slavery existing in this country for 245… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would… — Robert Falcon Scott Copy Share Image
I want to do a stripped-down album. That style is actually where my heart is - storytelling and just letting the voice… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
“And that’s how it is in this world, boy. Start a tale, just a little tale that should fade and die—take your… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf.… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time,… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew - Wanted to know what the River knew, Twenty Bridges or twenty-two, For they were young,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
It's very common to say that Star Wars in the late '70s, that was kind of perfect for Cold War culture and… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful,… — John Lescroart Copy Share Image
I loved fairy tales as a kid. I've always been drawn to fantasy. They're always exciting. There's never a dull moment. I… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
I've read Reverend Kirk, in fact. My uncle's library has quite a few books of your people. I have read Mr. Lang's… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
I find myself fascinated by a man who admits to enjoying fairy tales and uses the word "impinge"- barely misses a beat… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
The song "No Fairy Tale" tells my story. Going through the hard things leads to a richer life than just trying to… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
Story of O is a fairy tale for another world, a world where some part of me lived for a long time,… — Anne Desclos Copy Share Image
If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or,… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The Princess Bride S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure You had to admire a guy who called his… — William Goldman 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
Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's… — Camilla Lackberg Copy Share Image
“People seem always actually to know, with a degree of pain that has required the comfort of fairy tales, that when you… — Anne Hollander Copy Share Image
the various earth odors all have a separate tale to tell, and the leaf mold of the woods bears a wholly different… — Mabel Osgood Wright Copy Share Image
The naturalist worldview is a good way to feel grounded and feel part of something that isn't based on fairy tales. It's… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
I'm romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress,… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
