Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Sir Francis Bacon
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The laundry has its hands on my dirty shirts, sheets, towels and tablecloths, and who knows what tales they tell.
Dr. Joseph Smith
The information is out there. You just have to separate the facts from the wives' tales.
Larry Rogers
It is an island full of myth, full of story, full of history, ... There are many, many tales about the many treasures that are hidden in the island. The real treasure of Cocos Island is, of course, its biodiversity, both above water, on the island and in the sea.
Jose Maria
People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any kind.
Renata Adler
Dead men don't tell tales. We don't want a Lee Harvey Oswald here. We don't want an Oliver Stone movie. We don't want a Warren Commission report.
Stephen Jones
Last week in all media classes, we read Chinese folk tales and I did a presentation on China.
Linda Brooks
Very old are we men; / Our dreams are tales / Told in dim Eden / By Eve's nightingales.
Walter De La Mare
Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.
Theodore Dreiser
Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to use it: in writing, in art.
Patricia Mckillip
Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.
Roald Dahl
That's why you end up producing or directing. Because if you don't try to make these stories, you can't expect anyone else to come up with that idea and offer it to you. So you assume certain aspirations and goals, in order to tell certain tales. So you become the producer out of necessity, maybe not out of real desires.
Andy Garcia
Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed.
Richard Wright
I chose 'The Antique Ring' because it is a story about telling a story. Choosing the Poe story was more problematic because Poe's tales rarely employ dialogue.
Thomas Caron
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library: Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book, Red Fairy Book, and so on, probably down to the Puce or Chartreuse fairy tales.
Beverly Cleary
By breaking the two tales into more or less alternating scenes and interspacing the two authors' actual words and poems, I was able to arrive at a single work that combines actors, text, music, dance, and even puppets.
Thomas Caron
I still have to crack the French market, though that isn't entirely surprising considering that the Sharpe novels are endless tales of French defeat.
Bernard Cornwell
Frightening the public with tales of a drug so seductive it instantly turns masses of upstanding citizens into addicts who ruin their health, their lives and their families.
John Tierney
[The offer of Go Go Tales, Carlyle says,] was a bit of a marker ... You've always got to look for the interesting stuff and try to find a world that you haven't visited before. That's the only chance.
Harvey Keitel
To believe that you can contain this locally is to believe in fairy tales.
Mike Osterholm
Historically when people have been scared and nervous, there's been an uptick in science fantasy horror. You're telling allegorical tales and shining a light back on society.
David Goyer
The festival is a wonderful event, bringing together Scotland's finest storytellers and international guests for a programme of folk tales, performance and music.
Ricky Henderson
If you are a dreamer,come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bean-buyer. If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!
Shel Silverstein
Start with familiar fairy tales or Bible stories or old folk tales or ancient myths and legends. You can tell them straight, or you can add your own twists. If it's a story kids already know, they'll try to correct you if you stray, but that's part of the fun. You can make each story your own.
Priscilla Howe
So to D.J. it didn't make any sense that his two dads, both boys, would contemplate marrying each other, ... Boys weren't supposed to be interested in marriage any more than they were supposed to be interested in dolls or dresses or fairy tales about princesses.
Dan Savage
'Annie' was a comic strip with an awful lot of information in it. It had more information in the balloons above the characters than practically any other comic strip that was around. The strip told tales instead of jokes.
Martin Charnin
Do not ask questions of fairy tales.
Jewish Proverb
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
Aleister Crowley
People have told us in letters and phone calls that they have to jog from Lincoln Center to make their train. We hear plenty of tales of missed trains.
Marjorie Anders
We studied many different versions of classic fairy tales from different cultures around the world. We took stories like Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood and studied at least five versions of each so the students could compare and contrast them.
Cindy Williams
It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
Ian Mcewan
[Davis, a returning storyteller, will recount tales learned from a family of traditional storytellers who lived on the same North Carolina land since 1781.] I discovered in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope and go anywhere I pleased, ... Good Evening.
Donald Davis
These tales will tell the truth about The Life; the sex, guns and cash; the brutal highs and short lives of the players on the streets.
Pocket Books
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
Margaret Mead
Tales from the Track.
Bill Stephens
The hospital was called Eloise, and it was this compound of big red Victorian buildings that we used to ride our bikes by. Growing up, we heard all kinds of horrible tales, and that's what we used in our book.
Kelly Montee
It's a testament to an immigrant who was welcomed by the state of New Jersey and by this country. I was provided the kind of opportunity that you only read about in fairly tales.
Kris Kolluri
The books were written to amuse children. That is what Baum wanted to do. He wanted to write stories that weren't moralistic and not too frightening like many European fairy tales.
Stephen Teller
The resultant tales from life are stirring reader interest, survivor passions and unease among Britons.
Francis X. Clines
The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good.
Eric Brown
The songs will tell a story that I have imagined existing between the lines of Andersen's biography and some of his most famous tales, ... They speak of a misfit's love for an unattainable woman and a struggle between a huckster and someone who composes music in secret.
Elvis Costello
People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
Edmond de Goncourt
Folk Tales of the Tribes of Africa.
Eartha Kitt
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