The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition,… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t perfect, none of it. But it was a fairytale. And people needed to believe in fairytales. Even flawed ones. Maybe… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
September knew a number of curse words, most of which she heard the girls at school saying in the bathrooms, in hushed… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“All stories in which children have adventures and successes which are possible, in the sense that they do not break the laws… — Joe Rigney Copy Share Image
We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling… — Marlena De Blasi Copy Share Image
Storybook endings, fairy tales coming true. Deep down inside we want to believe they still do. In our secretest heart, it's our… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“What I mean is, all the terrible things that happen in fairy tales seem real. Or not real, but genuine. Life is… — Polly Shulman Copy Share Image
Kids know they can't make it alone, yet at the same time, built into each one of us, is a survival ethic.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The French fairy tale writers were so popular and prolific that when their stories were eventually collected in the 18th century, they… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Books were so simple about these things, fairy tales so straightforward! There were peasants, and then there were kings and queens. Sometimes… — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
My happiness is that I listened to a good fairy when I was a little girl. when she was very old and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't feel there's a difference between the real world and the fairy-tale world. They contain psychological truths and, I guess, projections… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“The idea that Elizabeth and Darcy would live happily ever after is a complete fairy tale.” “A fantasy.” “Yep. A fantasy that’s… — Christina Boyd Copy Share Image
“It is interesting that the worst retellings of traditional fairy tales are those that heavy-handedly take the step of making a moral… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
The Disney animators' rules on adult females: mothers are perfect but imperiled; stepmothers are wicked and occasionally homicidal; godmothers are sweet things… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
In the fairy tale you mentioned last night, I would probably be the villain. But it's possible the villain would treat you… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are just true stories that humans have chosen not to believe in any more. Besides, this is Myths and Legends… — Stacie Simpson Copy Share Image
“We’ll count it, even if it’s so incredibly gay that it should come with its own packet of fairy dust that you… — T.J. Klune Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science,… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
In the forest of primeval A school for Good and Evil Twin towers like two heads One for the pure And one… — Soman Chainani Copy Share Image
I always thought Tinker bell was really cool. I'd like to be able to shrink down to a really small size and… — Georgina Reilly Copy Share Image
The delight we experience when we allow ourselves to respond to a fairy tale, the enchantment we feel, comes not from the… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
If you are going to live in a house made of candy, don't move next door to a couple of obese kids.… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
Every fairy child may keep Two strong ponies and ten sheep; All have houses, each his own, Built of brick or granite… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
In college, I became interested in folk tales and fairy tales. Gradually I became more and more interested in the underlying meaning… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
“It's not simply about reading fairytales as you grow older. It's about still finding the magic in fairytales when the world tells… — D.L. Alexander Copy Share Image
I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's.… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
The regime is in trouble economically and can no longer offer anything to its citizens. That's why [Vladimir] Putin has to pursue… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
I don't believe in this fairy tale of staying together for ever. Ten years with somebody is enough. In ten years, you… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
“I’d believed in that story, the story of us. It was still there, that antiquated fairy tale notion. I was older now,… — Ute Carbone Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed… — Charles Perrault Copy Share Image
That's the fairy tale. You meet, you fall in love, you kiss, and neither of you is revolted by it. You get… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Rose, we are here today. Tomorrow we don’t know where life will take us to. So, as long as we have today… — Awwthentic Copy Share Image
![“The regime is in trouble economically and can no longer offer anything to its citizens. That's why [Vladimir] Putin has to pursue an aggressive foreign policy, so he can serve his people the fairy tale of Russian pride and regaining its strength as a major power.” quote by Garry Kasparov](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ba7/garry-kasparov-910_aggressive_the-regime-is-in-trouble-economically-an_1114604.png)
