Tales
Children should have the authority to interact with the realities of the world. Maybe, that’s because we make them read fairy tales.
Author: A. J. CookTopics: Authority, Children, Children privacy, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Realities, Reality, Tales, World
I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.
Author: K. A. ApplegateTopics: Colorful, Famous, Like, Stories, Tales
Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak.”
Author: K'naanTopics: Aging, Famous, Hunting, Learns, Lion, Speak, Tales, Weak
When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Bible, Book, Calling, collection, Contemptible, Creator, Dishonor, Famous, Grossest, History, Paltry, Stories, Tales, Throughout, Vices
The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this–whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with unknown spheres and powers; a subtle attitude of awed listening, as if for the beating of black wings or the scratching of outside shapes and entities on the known universe’s utmost rim.
Author: H. P. LovecraftTopics: Famous, Horror, Tales, Weird, Writing
Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large…. To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all.
Author: H. P. LovecraftTopics: Externality, Famous, Mankind, Meaning of life, Negligible, Objective, Real, Tales
The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.
Author: H. P. LovecraftTopics: Dramatic, Elements, Famous, Impactful Roles, Minds, Reason, Tales, Terrible, Things, Time, Universe