Quotes of: Fairy-tale Keyword

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger" - Billy Connolly

Boulder Blues: A Tale of the Colorado Counterculture

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

If thou dost think of me again, O tribune, let it not be lost in thy mind that I prayed thee only for word of my people - mother, sister.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

- If you could describe my son in 3 words, what would you say? - Sweet. Cute. Funny. - That could be a description of a puppy she says dryly.

14 Twisted Tales To Enthrall

Vampires, real vampires, didn't nibble on the necks of nubile young virgins. They tore people to pieces and sucked the blood out of the chunks.

99 Coffins: A Historical Vampire Tale

Weddings, I began to understand, were vile, filthy things when they ran amuck.

Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood

[A] finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange.

Appreciations and criticisms of the works of Charles Dickens

My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.

The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights

I hate math. It's hard, it's stupid, and it's nature's way of separating spinsters from women who end up breeding.

Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People

reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat.

Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love

It was a well-known fact that Lorna was leaving in six months’ time, since Lorna had been leaving in six months’ time for close to twenty-five years.

Rosie Little's Cautionary Tales for Girls

Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere - Carl Sagan

Serenity's Dream: A Collection of Tales and Poems about Mystical Journeys.

Sometimes, the only way to exorcise old ghosts is to pack your bags and move in with them.

Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love

Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.

A Tale for the Time Being

Like a small boat adrift in the fog, she caught glimpses during patches when the mist cleared of a world far away, in which everything was changing.

A Tale for the Time Being

The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesn’t now, then where did it go ?

A Tale for the Time Being

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.

A Tale of Two Cities

. “And I stole some oxen jerky out of Bercelak’s bag. He makes the best oxen jerky.” “Bercelak the Vengeful cooks?” “Aye. And he’s surprisingly good at it, too!

A Tale Of Two Dragons

You see, to find the brightest wisdom one must pass through the darkest zones. And through the darkest zones there can be no guide. No guide, that is, but courage

A Tale Dark & Grimm