Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
“I am Shiloh, whose box you stole. Your godmother's sickness lies in your own keeping, you can heal her in a moment.… — A.E. Coppard Copy Share Image
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The Wizard Of Oz" has secrets that are just too much. Or "Peter Pan" – the whole 'lost boys' thing is just… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I was a captive and a slave. I loved Dora Spenlow to distraction! She was more than human to me. She was… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
The note, which had been written on one of the pads I kept around for grocery lists, said, "My lover, I came… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
At a gig in Liverpool I had this lady give me 21 cup cakes she had made herself. It's not really rock'n'roll… — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded attention to your career. Nobody… — Evelyn Keyes 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
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
True love was forever lost. The prince was never coming back to kiss me awake from my enchanted sleep. I was not… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Goldilocks [There] lived a family of bearstogether anthropomorphically in a little cottage as a nuclear family. They were very sorry about this,… — James Finn Garner Copy Share Image
Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists… — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun. — Carlton Mellick III Copy Share Image
“And even these ((the common hill fairy, the standard elf of folk-lore) are in danger of being banished into the limbo of… — Lewis Spence Copy Share Image
The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image