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In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the… — Ben Bova
I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire to communicate, to… — James A. Michener
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders. — Savielly Tartakower
Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won. — Oliver Goldsmith
Each one of us needs time and space for recollection, meditation and calmness.... Thanks be to God that this is so! In fact, this need… — Pope Benedict XVI
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way. — Joni Mitchell
Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting… — Bertrand Russell
There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities. Then you grow… — Cecelia Ahern
Dead men tell no tales. — John Dryden
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture,… — Douglas Hofstadter
A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and… — Mark Twain
Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then,… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor. — Albert Einstein
I'm glad that so many of Donald Pease's unique and revealing insights on Dr. Seuss--observations he shared with me on camera with an effusiveness and… — Unknown Author
The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully understand the universe,… — Neal Asher
The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate. — Paul Di Filippo
Helen Tse tells a gripping tale of struggle, laughter, love and food that marks Sweet Mandarin as a must read book. It is not only… — Unknown Author
Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one of his inventive, carefully crafted,… — David Anthony Durham
I have to believe in fairy tales and I have to believe in love. — Taylor Swift
I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale — January Jones
In 1992, fans of our feline temptress got another chance to sink their claws into the new and exciting tales of Catwoman in Batman: The… — Eartha Kitt
Maybe it's a fairy tale, but I believe in happily ever after. — Jennifer Aniston
Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with… — Dara O Briain
It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the story was more than a single film could hold. As the saga… — George Lucas

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