“It was only as part of the civilizing process that storytelling developed within the aristocratic and bourgeois homes, in the seventeenth and… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“Do you remember the fairy tale about the mermaid? A witch gave her legs, she could walk, but she felt like there… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
I loved reading Grimm's fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
“Our lives drifts along with normal things happening. Some ups, some downs, but nothing to go down in history about. Nothing so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Some women have kissed—and some are kissing—a lot of frogs, even though the very first man that they have each kissed was… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“As I thought about endings and – being a lover of fairy tales – I knew immediately that the deeply rooted last… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
One of the major dangers of being alone in February is the tendency to dwell on past relationships. Whether you're daydreaming about… — Amy Morin Copy Share Image
“Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance,… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
“All of the great mythologies and much of the mythic story-telling of the world are from the male point of view. When… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Our world is not safe. It is a toxic swamp populated by predators and parasites. The odds are stacked against us from… — J.K. Franko 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
Farewell, farewell," said the swallow, with a heavy heart, as he left the warm countries, to fly back into Denmark. There he… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
Doesn't it get on my nerves when people say science doesn't know everything. Science knows it doesn't know everything otherwise it would… — Dara O Briain 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
I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid. — Armie Hammer Copy Share Image
Among all the fairy tales I choose Shrek, because that's where I learned that even imperfect people can have happy endings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that’s based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
