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Son of a Merryweather, he's a lot stronger than he looks. — Nicki Elson

You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul? — Rudyard Kipling

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence. — Sandra Cisneros

My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac
you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan. — Priya Ardis

We who are beyond the mortal world see many things from the edges; we hear the subtle shifts of rhythm in the beat of a blackening heart. — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales. — Jim Crace

Life is a big story. Music is just one way to tell it, to realize how many tales all kinds of people share. — Stasia Ward Kehoe

There are two kinds of tales: one accurate but not true, the other true but not accurate. — Margaret George

Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale. — Cory Doctorow

As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness. — Greg Van Eekhout

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- The Frog King | The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm — Jack D. Zipes

The problem with fairy tales is that most of them begin with tragedy. — Kelly Oram

The creative imagination is the essential element of a true scientist, and fairy tales are the childhood stimulus to this quality. — Albert Einstein

I don't think you mess around when you talk about tales of valor. — David Gregory

Apparently I'm well-known for my stories, my raconteur tales, that sort of thing. — Rick Wakeman

though few believed any of his tales, he remained very happy to the end of his days, and those were extraordinarily long. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak. — K'naan

Twiss. Free of vice and gossip and idle tales." As the indicator arrow hit "B," Joseph switched to — Martin Cruz Smith

In every one of the Greeks' mythology tales, there is this: a man chasing a woman, or a woman chasing a man. There is never a meeting in the middle. — Jesmyn Ward

These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales. — Cory Doctorow

The weakness of many tellers of tales who seem so often unaware of what their audience would best like to hear; — Joseph Conrad

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth. — Criss Jami

Beyond the picket fences and the oil wells, the happy endings, and the fairy tales, is the reality of shattered lives and broken dreams. We carry on. — Tim McGraw

WHO WHAT WHERE WHY WHEN
Personality redefines character through phases of wisdom at different ages — Kamil Ali

The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in. — Harold Clarke Goddard

Jon relished the stories they were telling, tales of battle and bedding and the hunt. He — George R R Martin

Fairy tales are another kind of Bible, for those who know how to read them. — Theodora Goss

For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power — Carlos Castaneda

A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale. — V.S. Pritchett

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different. — Karl Lagerfeld

other tales, the sailors reach a land of intelligent talking animals who find humans disgusting and rather stupid. — Robin Hobb

Then clear on a flute of purest gold A sweet little fairy played. And wonderful fairy tales she told and marvelous music made. — Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' shapes all the fiction I've ever written. — Justine Larbalestier

We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories. — Angelina Jolie

Children digest terror differently. The boy saw a horror, and that horror became the wicked witch of fairy tales, the cruel snow queen. — Gillian Flynn

It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read,
I need protection from the things in my head ... — Jimmy Buffett

As she put it, she knew of nothing so ravishing as having a child whom she could whip whenever she was in a bad mood.
("The Queen Fantasque") — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

As a boy, Sebastian had listened to his grandfather's tales of fanged devils that lived in the nearby marshes. Vampiir. — Kresley Cole

Because of pressure from society, many a man has married a woman with whom he isn't compatible; she likes fairy tales, whereas he likes hairy males. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Sorcerers believe that an action taken for the right reasons has an unreasonable chance of success. — Gail Carson Levine

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them. — Sergei Lukyanenko

In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by. — Heinrich Heine

The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting. — Stephanie Zacharek

All of those stories are just tales told by people who lived lives before ours. What they say about humankind is true. — Brandon Sanderson

If we must die, then let us die fighting a battle worthy of remembrance in the tales of our descendants! — Daniel Adorno

Are you here for a reason, Cheshire?

Why, yes, I would enjoy a cup of tea. I take mine with lots of cream, and no tea. Thank you. — Marissa Meyer

( ... ) every story one chooses to tell is a kind of censorship, it prevents the telling of other tales ( ... ) — Salman Rushdie

I fear nothing when I am doing right,' said Jack.
'Then,' said the lady in the red cap, 'you are one of those who slay giants. — Andrew Lang

Only the living have the privilege of saying they'll fight to the last breath, and words like conviction and resolve don't mean much to a dead man. — Raven

Fairy tales die hard in the minds and hearts of some girls.
Quinn — Beth Harbison

I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me. — Amanda Seyfried

Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals. — John Calvin

In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid — William Shakespeare

Tales of triumph are my favourite. — S.A. Tawks

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs. — Carroll O'Connor

Rudeness is limiting. Sometimes a false hospitality can be even more dangerous, as any reader of fairy tales must know. — Patrick Flanery

I am extremely close to my brother, Kent, and my sister, Lauren, who have been remarkably understanding about all of my weird sibling tales. — Karen Russell

Did you recently turn into a jerk or have you been one since birth? — Priya Ardis

Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' to comfort me. — Kate Forsyth

I love who you are, yesterday, now, tomorrow, always. — Gena Showalter

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A.S. Byatt

He met each newly exposed piece of flesh with a tender kiss, remembering how he'd dreamed of doing exactly this on the very first night he'd seen her. — Nicki Elson

Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness. — Charles Bukowski

Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre. — Terry A. O'Neal

He was beginning to understand how those ridiculous tales had made her a prisoner of others' expectations. — Tessa Dare

Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in. — Kate Forsyth

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience. — George Santayana

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all. — Audrey Hepburn

The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales. — Lisa Jakub

My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's. — John Connolly

Breathe the air, taste the wine, kiss the girls, and always remember that the tales of another are never as wondrous as your own. — Michael J. Sullivan

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change. — Pamela Yates

I love visual stylists like Bob Fosse and Vincente Minnelli and Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger with The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffman. — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

The beliefs of your country mostly become your own beliefs! Not the reason but the empty tales shape you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We need creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life. — Danielle Ganek

My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up. — Irena A. Hoffman

Do you believe in fairy tales?"
"What ... what kind of fairy tales?"
"The kind you aren't supposed to waste your life on. — Richelle Mead

Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through. — Jim C. Hines

What Hans had intended to end at a simple kiss quickly escalated into something neither one of them seemed able to stop. — Nicki Elson

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them. — Mitch Albom

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, ... not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing. — Salman Rushdie

It is interesting that the worst retellings of traditional fairy tales are those that heavy-handedly take the step of making a moral point. — Isobelle Carmody

One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes pecked out by crows. — Mark Gatiss

RELIGION OR COUNTRY
Our allegiance may determine the fate of others — Kamil Ali

At least that left hope for him. Except "Beauty and the Geek" wasn't exactly the proper translation of the popular fairy tale. — Kelly Moran

The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humor was the real salt in them. — Hans Christian Andersen

It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but
it was the only one we had. — Megan Hart

Later these tales would be retold and embellished by the genius of Mallory, Spenser, and Tennyson. — Winston S. Churchill

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders. — Savielly Tartakower

A make believe life doesn't win friends and influence people. It bores the crap out of those living the dream. — Melody Carstairs

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful? — Charles Caleb Colton

There are no fairy tales in the wild, no Cinderella stories. The lowly wolf that seems to rise to the top of the pack was really the alpha all along — Jodi Picoult

He held out the pendant in the palm of his hand.
"Happy birthday, Copper," he whispered. — Sharon Lynn Fisher

None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Of all the tales in all the kingdoms in all the Woods, you had to walk into mine. — Soman Chainani

Remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of. — Andrew Lang

In truth, Liesel was a prisoner too, just held by different kinds of bonds. — Nicki Elson

Rachael could find no solace in other people's tales of woe. Pain was uniquely one's own, and undiminished by a democracy of suffering. — Rhidian Brook

The words of the bards come down the centuries to us, warm with living breath. — Padraig Pearse