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
The most fascinating thing for me is that 'Peter Pan' is a fairy tale, but now, this Filipino kid is a part… — Dante Basco Copy Share Image
It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“A part of me does not want to think that I always knew something was wrong.=. This is probably the same part… — Carrie Jones Copy Share Image
“To be capable of great love, (that of myths, legends, and fairy tales), one must have had more so, greatly suffered, (that… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“Just think Kate Middleton. Does she do housework? Does she work for a living? See how the world adores her? You (a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The sleeping beauty in the fairy tale was awakened by the kiss of her prince. Finley woke up to the over-whelming and… — Kady Cross Copy Share Image
“It would be nice to report she lived happily ever after till the end of her days. But such cheap, cop-out one-liners… — Jennifer Silverwood Copy Share Image
“When the bald associate had mentioned a sleeping beauty, he was referring to a fairy tale that you have probably heard one… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“Creators of literary fairy tales from the 17th-century onward include writers whose works are still widely read today: Charles Perrault (17th-century France),… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“Last night I went and saw Good Will Hunting, which takes place not exactly where I used to live, in Boston, but… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Dear . . . You’re the poem I couldn’t finish The journey I should have never started I saw tragedy in our… — Samantha King Copy Share Image
“His hands lay flat on either side of him, his arms at his sides. He seemed barely to be breathing; she wasn't… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“They sat close to each other, and he told her a story about her eyes. They were beautiful dark lakes in which… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
“How do you accept that tragic irony is a cruelty reserved not merely for Shakespearean plot twists? How do you admit to… — Yvette Manessis Corporon 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
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Winter passed, and the world around began to wake. The birds returned to the kingdom and set about readying their nests, deer… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the… — Anonymous 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
“For the story that shapes a child’s universe also shapes the child—and by the child, the man thereafter. The memory of a… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
I've always liked fairy tale and spectacle. I wouldn't say I was a fantasy fan, but anything beyond reality I've always found… — Gwendoline Christie Copy Share Image
When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
In that moment, Lux felt complete for the first time. He hadn’t even realized anything was missing until he met her, but… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
It [the Earth] was breathtakingly beautiful, like something out of a fairy tale. There is no way to describe the joy of… — Valentina Tereshkova Copy Share Image
I believe in fairy tales. They are the basis of all our performance of storytelling and film-making - when we twist the… — Charles Sturridge Copy Share Image
Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And you must tell the child the legends I told you--as my mother told them to me and her mother to her.… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul. With a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of… — Jack Nelson Copy Share Image
Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It's because you're letting the fairy tales you grew up hearing in storybooks and the baseless ideals of love cloud your mind.… — Colleen hoover Copy Share Image
“I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he… — Deborah G. Felder Copy Share Image
The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“He believed in magic, like a child, and in ghosts, like a peasant. His nose was broken by a falling volume of… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image