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
'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
Life is not at all what you might think it to be A simple tale where each thing has its history It's… — John Ashbery 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
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
The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are about trouble, about getting into and out of it, and trouble seems to be a necessary stage on the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
The therapist can interpret, advise, provide the emotional acceptance and support that nurtures personal growth, and above all, he can listen. I… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional… — Jeffrey Kluger 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
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
I like being able to bounce between writing movies for people like Kevin Sorbo to making very personal films like orange county… — Evan Jacobs 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
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story,… — William Makepeace Thackeray 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 is out of reality that the most peculiar tale of all is born ... Some call me the Elder Granny, others… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is no more terrible woe upon earth than the woe of the stricken brain, which remembers the days of its strength,… — Ouida 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
Every interview with a public figure should include the question "What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your… — Stewart Brand 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
As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Once the 'portals of the future close - in Amazonia, Siberia or the Arctic - we will find ourselves powerless to affect… — Mark Lynas Copy Share Image
There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I've decided to skip 'holistic'. I don't know what it means, and I don't want to know. That may seem extreme, but… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
If there was no risk, it wouldn't be art. It wouldn't be worth making. There is risk even in a fairy tale.… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In the past, love for me has always meant forever, and sure, you still nurse some of those fantasies, but I don't… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called 'Tales From The Crypt' and 'The Vault of Horror.' They… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image