“It has generally been assumed that fairy tales were first created for children and are largely the domain of children. But nothing… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom?… — Max Stirner 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
It's the pool where we all go down to drink, to swim, to catch a little fish from the edge of the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think people forget that when people lose Medicaid coverage, they still show up at the hospital when they have a chronic… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
Seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
“It must not be thought, however, that in pagan Ireland Fairyland was altogether conceived as a Hades or place of the dead.… — Lewis Spence Copy Share Image
Because you see when a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
But when the fairy sang the whole world listened to him. Stephen felt clouds pause in their passing; he felt sleeping hills… — Susanna Clarke 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
I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales… — Stanley Kubrick 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
Eyes Tell Stories But do they know how to craft fiction? Do they know how to spin lies? His eyes swear forever,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“The tinkle of wind chimes announcing the return of our fairy guests made us both look up. Our chance to be alone… — E.D. Baker Copy Share Image
The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“[Veda:] Twenty years of thinking that vampires and witches and all things supernatural were nothing but a bedtime story: a myth, thought… — Jessica Lave Copy Share Image
He used to talk to me about Russia all the time and had sworn up and down that I'd love it here.… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
One of the basic motifs in fairy tales is that you find the poor and unfortunate along the side of the road,… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
And yet, I felt a surge of exhilaration just thinking about that night. Not just because I'd met the prince and fallen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Harvey sought for truth in Truth's own book- Creation - which by God himself was writ;And wisely thought 'twas fitNot to read… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
The kitten was six weeks old. It was enchanting, a delicate fairy-tale cat, whose Siamese genes showed in the shape of the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
You know the fairy-tale drill, especially from the Disney versions: the heroines endure awful stuff in rites of passage that lead to… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
“I will tell you, too, that every fairy tale has a moral. The moral of my story may be that love is… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“The term - 'Fairy-Tales' is so ironical in itself, when I sometimes sit to write love stories with a happy ending, it… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The literary fairy tale became an acceptable social symbolic form through which conventionalized motifs, characters, and plots were selected, composed, arranged, and… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“The fairy tale of film—created with the magic of animation—is the modern equivalent of the great parables of the Middle Ages. Creation… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“Romance is a sudden and miraculous grace: never to be counted on to recur. It does not deny the existence of eucatastrophe,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I love monsters, I love creatures, I love beings, I love aliens. That's more supernatural and more the stuff of fairy tales.… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Shed no tear! oh, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more! oh, weep no more! Young buds… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I was amazed by this person who, even though she had everything, would go to feed the homeless and visit sick children… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“The fairy tale is not the conclusion, but the doorway to a more brilliant reality. Pushed onto a pedestal as the final… — Natalie Nyquist 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
“As Mr. R. U. Sayee has well said: 'It should be clear a priori that fairy lore must have developed as a… — Lewis Spence 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
![“Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. [] If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion…” quote by Max Stirner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/00e/max-stirner-6556_barriers_whoever-will-be-free-must-make-himself-f_699179.jpg)
![“[Veda:] Twenty years of thinking that vampires and witches and all things supernatural were nothing but a bedtime story: a myth, thought up by ignorant people and told to children to keep them from straying after dark. Now, when it was right in front of her, it still felt like a fairy tale.” quote by Jessica Lave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/18b/jessica-lave-25020_children_veda-twenty-years-of-thinking-that-vampi_117555.jpg)
![“The kitten was six weeks old. It was enchanting, a delicate fairy-tale cat, whose Siamese genes showed in the shape of the face, ears, tail, and the subtle lines of its body. [...] She sat, a tiny thing, in the middle of a yellow carpet, surrounded by five worshipppers, not at all afraid of us…” quote by Doris Lessing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/668/doris-lessing-501_bed_the-kitten-was-six-weeks-old-it-was-ench_3033294.jpg)
![“[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a…” quote by Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/19d/joseph-campbell-300_ancient_comedies-in-the-ancient-world-were-regar_2396551.jpg)
![“Goldilocks [There] lived a family of bearstogether anthropomorphically in a little cottage as a nuclear family. They were very sorry about this, of course, since the nuclear family has traditionally served to enslave womyn, instill a self-righteous moralism in its members, and imprint rigid…” quote by James Finn Garner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a9b/james-finn-garner-41094_baby_goldilocks-there-lived-a-family-of-bears_2832209.jpg)