The imagined beings have their insides on the outside; they are visible souls. And man as a whole, Man pitted against the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“What millions believe is often just fairy tales for children! The fabrications of the past are ridiculously accepted as the holies of… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of… — John Stamos Copy Share Image
The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Vlad had found himself longing to encounter those of his own kind, to travel to the streets of Elysia-that far away world,… — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image
That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
“It must be understood that in some cases the process by which a god or goddess degenerates into a fairy may occupy… — Lewis Spence Copy Share Image
Adults trying to protect children from reality, right? And adults always trying to fill children with fantasy - the tooth fairy, Santa,… — Shane Warren Jones Copy Share Image
Once I thought fairy tales were lies or worse promises spoken yet meant to be broken intent is all. Why do grown… — Justice Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Just as we all like love tales because there is an instinct of sex, we all like astonishing tales because they touch… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there. I… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are rife with transformation — from beast to handsome prince, from dirty scullery maid to well-dressed princess. It is perhaps… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman,… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
“Among those who still have enough wisdom not to think fairy-stories are pernicious, the common opinion seems to be that there is… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Real fairy tales are not for the faint hearted. In them, children get eaten by witches and chased by wolves; women fall… — Samantha van Leer Copy Share Image
The religions are the buildings or the institutions, the groups, but inside of that is what moves, is what's alive, is the… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
A real spirituality must be rooted in earthliness. Any spirituality that denies the earth, rejects the earth, becomes abstract, becomes airy-fairy. It… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles… — Marchette Chute Copy Share Image
“You see, King, we have a legend - I used to believe that it was all fairy-tale rubbish and empty smoke. It… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Once, at the dreaming dawn of history -- before the world was categorized and regulated by mortal minds, before solid boundaries formed… — Colin Thubron Copy Share Image
“In the old stories, despite the impossibility of the incidents, the interest is always real and human. The princes and princesses fall… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
You have been told that God is a loving, gracious, merciful, kind, compassionate, wonderful, and good sky fairy who runs a day… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
“To sum up: all nature-spirits are not the same as fairies; nor are all fairies nature-spirits. The same applies to the relationship… — Lewis Spence Copy Share Image
“Think of every fairy-tale villainess you've ever heard of. Think of the wicked witches, the evil queens, the mad enchantresses. Think of… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“How different this world to the one about which I used to read, and in which I used to live! This is… — Wirt Gerrare Copy Share Image
The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
“There were two things about this particular book ( The Golden Book of Fairy Tales ) that made it vital to the… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Magical, yes, but THE SNOW CHILD is also satisfyingly realistic in its depiction of 1920s homestead-era Alaska and the people who settled… — Andromeda Romano-Lax Copy Share Image
The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“We read the pagan sacred books with profit and delight. With myth and fable we are ever charmed, and find a pleasure… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It leaned forward, elbows on its knees, all amusement vanishing from its features, leaving its chiseled visage quietly regal, dignified. "I give… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I call her Wild Woman, for those very words, wild and woman, create llamar o tocar a la puerta, the fairy-tale knock… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is perfectly all right for children to believe in fairy tales. Believing in dragons and other imaginary creatures may scare them… — John Taskinsoy Copy Share Image
There is a latent fairy in all women, but look how carefully we have to secrete her in order to be taken… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
