You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I believe in God, who can respond to prayers, to whom we can give trust and without whom life on this earth… — Nevill Francis Mott Copy Share Image
For who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those places which they… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And his knowledge remained woefully incomplete, Harry! That which Voldemort does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. Of house-elves and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter,… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we… — Olga Kurylenko Copy Share Image
I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever written anything even remotely naturalistic. The closest probably would be seen as 'Frankie and Johnny,' and that's… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
There are no footprints on the sea and no road-signs, not a single guard-stone or post, and no bends, only paths of… — Ase-Marie Nesse 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
Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a… — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs. The… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
More wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of the ocean. Blue, green,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles… — Marchette Chute Copy Share Image
She put her hand on her chest. “I have magic yet. If you will set the clock working again, then I must… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman,… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I like being able to bounce between writing movies for people like Kevin Sorbo to making very personal films like orange county… — Evan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“There is, however, a strong empirical reason why we should cultivate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that they are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once." "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
In horror stories or in fairy tales, the fascination with the morbid is also, at least for me, a way to prepare… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
Victor Vigny: It is like the old fairy tale. The boy saves the princess; they fall in love. He invents a flying… — Eoin Colfer 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
People say, "Look, your book [Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty's Favorite Uncle] is about tall tales." And I said, "No, you… — Si Robertson Copy Share Image
I realized that searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming. We all grew up on… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I looked at the 1950 animated film [Cinderella], I read a couple of editions of the fairy tale that I have in… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
I call her Wild Woman, for those very words, wild and woman, create llamar o tocar a la puerta, the fairy-tale knock… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Magical, yes, but THE SNOW CHILD is also satisfyingly realistic in its depiction of 1920s homestead-era Alaska and the people who settled… — Andromeda Romano-Lax Copy Share Image
“There were two things about this particular book ( The Golden Book of Fairy Tales ) that made it vital to the… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
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