When I was a kid, Santa, the Tooth Fairy, my stuffed animals - they were real. There is the tremendous suspension of… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual. — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
The fast fliers are not disgraced." Queen Ree reached up for the missing tiara. "She saved us, but she's with him now."… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
One of the things that turns me on the most is imagining new worlds, just as I did as a kid, when… — Nick Willing Copy Share Image
“Rage Against the Dying Light is my fairy tale, even though it is based on a true story. For everyone knows that… — Jan Surasky Copy Share Image
“You don't understand at all. It doesn't matter what's true and what's a fairy tale. That's not what matters. The dividing lines… — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
One of the first houses we lived in was like out of a fairy story. We had a stream that ran through… — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
You actually do confront your dark side, your impulses, or your feelings of sibling rivalry in Cinderella or whatever. You admit that… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that… — David Richo Copy Share Image
Everybody expects the fairy tale - you're going to be together forever with somebody. I don't really subscribe to that. I'd love… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
Confronted with the loving-sharing Consensus of subject-SUBJECT relationships all Authoritarianism must vanish. The Fairy Family Circle, co-joined in the shared vision of… — Harry Hay Copy Share Image
“I realize that for all my penchant in believing that there's more to the world than what we can see, that folk… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they're fairy tales and lies. This is the… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Christmas Eve Saint Francis and Saint Benedight Blesse this house from wicked wight; From the night-mare and the goblin, That is hight… — Thomas Cartwright Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
In The Tale of Despereaux, there is a lot of darkness, a lot of despair. There's also a lot of light, redemption,… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“She was never going to get used to how much the Faeries seem to stare at her, as if dissecting her and… — Alexia Purdy Copy Share Image
“We may say that the characters in fairytales are ‘good to think with’…[and that] the job of the fairytale is to show… — Brian Wicker Copy Share Image
...This is the only way. I will not allow humans or fairies to die when I might have prevented it.” Butler would… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little… — Leo McCarey Copy Share Image
I always thought what if you took a myth of childhood like the tooth fairy and made it a central scary thing.… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales represent hundreds of years of stories based on thousands of years of stories told by hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
I was a youngish man entering fatherhood when we wrote 'Woods,' a patchwork of classic fairy tales with an original tale sewn… — James Lapine Copy Share Image
Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists, like… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
“they discovered that it doesn’t matter what you look like on the outside; it is who you are on the inside that… — S.E. Smith Copy Share Image
“And finally, I understood that real life - with all its ups and downs, complications, broken hearts, and triumphs - was a… — Talli Roland Copy Share Image
“So, too, the creeds of man: the one prevails Until the other comes; and this one fails When that one triumphs; ay,… — Al-Maʿarri Copy Share Image
I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Hersesy is denying the word of God, and the word of God is much more reliably expressed in the natural world as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image