First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Copy Share Image
I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales. — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
The time comes when our hearts sink utterly; When we remember Deirdre and her tale, And that her lips are dust. — James Kenneth Stephen Copy Share Image
For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record. — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
“Many a year I told her tales. And then the time came for me to watch. And watch I have.” — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image
I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right.… — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I adopted a healthier diet. I take at least a tablespoon of apple-cider vinegar a day. It's an old wives' tale, but… — Melissa Etheridge 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
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
Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
She tastes like nectar and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by,… — Lewis Carroll 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
That's just me wanting that supernatural tool to tell a story and also not wanting to be restricted by reality, with how… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
The woeful tales of 'Super Mario Bros.' and 'Street Fighter' have taught studios that merely slapping a name to a movie is… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a… — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs. The… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
'Tales From Topographic Oceans' is like a woman's padded bra. The cover looks good, but when you peel off the padding, there's… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales were the door to the world of imagination for me as a child, that land I often lived in when… — Regan Walker Copy Share Image
Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies. — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half. — Michael Bergin Copy Share Image
People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before you enter the forest, you must leave your mind outside, because in the land of fairy tales there is no need… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If 'happily ever after' did exist, I would still be holding you like this, all those fairy tales are full of shit. — Maroon 5 Copy Share Image
Don't rush into LOVE, cux even in fairly tales, the happy ending takes place on the last PAGE — Anne Nwakama Copy Share Image
Whether histories have a happy ending or not depends on when the chronicler ends the tale. — Linda Gordon Copy Share Image
It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real… — Soman Chainani Copy Share Image
“WHO WHAT WHERE WHY WHEN Personality redefines character through phases of wisdom at different ages” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
Be careful, boy. In some tales, the hero gets eaten by the monster after all . — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
I'd been right from the start - soulmates were for fairy tales. In real life, people were just people, and they couldn't… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
