The most fascinating thing for me is that 'Peter Pan' is a fairy tale, but now, this Filipino kid is a part… — Dante Basco Copy Share Image
In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies. — Richard King Copy Share Image
I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
The Orenda is a powerful story from history, folklore and the imagination, based on the universality of human cruelty, superstition and perseverance.… — Linden MacIntyre Copy Share Image
In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
“It would be dreadfully ironic, I mused, if once I earned a soul, I forgot everything about being fey, including all my… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
I look at all of world mythology and folklore as my toy to play with. There are just so many characters and… — Mike Mignola Copy Share Image
I do a lot of urban fantasy, which is modern-day cities, but you've got magic, you've got fairies running around, or cryptozoological… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I took physics, and lo and behold, there's a lot of physics in 'Lost.' I think for most people, liberal arts educations… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
“Sara Kendell once read somewhere that the tale of the world is like a tree. The tale, she understood, did not so… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
“Early Summer, loveliest season, The world is being colored in. While daylight lasts on the horizon, Sudden, throaty blackbirds sing. The dusty-colored… — Marie Heaney Copy Share Image
I read and learned and fretted more about Canada after I left than I ever did while I was home. I absorbed… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore, I find that stories people told each other thousands of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
“Nothing in this world is a coincidence. Everything is Hitsuzen. *Hitsuzen meaning inevitability, destiny, or fate, as being the driving force in… — CLAMP Copy Share Image
There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a good relationship… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
Who could think that children from the pockets of Himalaya sing folklore from Scotland and vice versa? Such an education in the… — Mohit Chauhan Copy Share Image
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“In the case of George and the Dragon – an encounter in which the dice were theologically loaded – any morally sentient… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders or people… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
Most Remainers and pragmatic Leavers have supported Theresa May's efforts to negotiate a bespoke deal based on the Chequers proposals. And most… — Nick Boles Copy Share Image
“So how did it go? I sat on the toilet and ran a hand over my hair. Um... it's still going, I… — Denise Grover Swank Copy Share Image
“ Nothing I have will tempt you?” King Herla murmured. Lin could only shake her head. “Then perhaps I should offer myself,”… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely… — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
“You can take your gold, but afterwards, things are, things are flat . There is less beauty in a rainbow, less meaning… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are lots of things in the folklore, like they can only be killed by a silver bullet, that don't realistically work,… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Expedition EVEREST adds a new dimension to our storytelling in Disney's Animal Kingdom. It's a thrilling adventure themed to the folklore of… — Joe Rohde Copy Share Image
Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes it folklore, as opposed… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The worlds of folklore and religion were so mingled in early twentieth venture German culture that even families who didn't go to… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
I always wanted to go to Cuba growing up. It was this fascinating, forbidden country that seemed to have a lot of… — Giovanni Ribisi Copy Share Image
