“Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be… — Derek Sivers Copy Share Image
“The World is divided into armed camps ready to commit genocide just because we can't agree on whose fairy tales to believe.… — Ed Krebs Copy Share Image
“It does feel magical. It does feel like a fairy tale. That a man like Brett – so charming, so talented, so… — K.A. Tucker Copy Share Image
The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about… — Eazy-E Copy Share Image
“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
“When my mom was alive, she read me stories every night. ”Use your imagination, Lorelei,” she’d say, “and your whole life can… — Nikki Loftin Copy Share Image
The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
“At the heart of his paper was the notion that fairy tales relieved us of our need for order and allowed us… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Uncertainty, in the presence of vivid hopes and fears, is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“When you enter the woods of a fairy tale and it is night, the trees tower on either side of the path.… — Elizabeth J. Andrew Copy Share Image
We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To most people today, the name Snow White evokes visions of dwarfs whistling as they work, and a wide–eyed, fluttery princess singing,… — Terri Windling 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
“Peter and the deer herd ranged over the forest together, and without words, Peter told the deer about his new life at… — Christopher Daniel Mechling Copy Share Image
“As we drove I remembered how I had told myself I would make Simon happy. I didn't feel the same person. For… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“Maybe, his grandparents were not the saints that they were painted out to be by the public. Especially, if his grandfather could… — Kristina Stangl Copy Share Image
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As a fallen noble, he could only imagine the embarrassment she must have endured, when his family disowned her. To lose the… — Kristina Stangl Copy Share Image
“Friedan demystified the fairy tale and traced it back to its roots. She named the unnamed problem. She told women they weren’t… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
I dream of working with iconic directors such as Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson - so I'm setting… — Dree Hemingway Copy Share Image
“A plot that had filled her with glee when she began, was now revealed as flimsy and transparent. Eliza scratched out what… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Goldenrod Moram had a first name that sounded like it belonged in the middle of a fairy tale, where she would be… — Sarvenaz Tash Copy Share Image
“Any character from the Grimm fairy tale becomes Corrupted over time because they don’t belong in this world,” Briar explained. “They’re people,… — Isabella Fontaine Copy Share Image
“Listen, sweetie, love isn’t easy. Love is an endless act of forgiving each other…it truly is. It’s not always a fairy tale… — Diane Mannino Copy Share Image
And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
It never ceases to amaze us that when we were in kindergarten they taught us that a frog turning into a prince… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard… — Linda Miles Copy Share Image
“Because sometimes I have the feeling that everyone thinks that everyone else is living a fairy tale. Especially in the South. People… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“When we think about fairy tales, we think about happily ever afters, forgetting the darkness that stories beginning with "once upon a… — Laura J. Burns Copy Share Image
Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“His reality was turned into dust the day it collided with her universe. For the first time, he wanted to get lost… — Akshay Vasu Copy Share Image
“She was sent to sleep under a velvety cloak of words, richly patterned and stitched with gold, straight out of a fairy… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Tink is the voice of the youth. I'm not one of those artists who talks about unrealistic things or fairy tales. I'm… — Tink Copy Share Image
“...One cannot help but consider the future- what will it be like when all the wild places of the earth have been… — Christopher Daniel Mechling 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
Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
It's [Jack the Giant Slayer] one of those fairy tales your mom and dad read to you when you're little. Never once… — Eleanor Tomlinson Copy Share Image
I am not a great believer in fairy tales. Every woman should fight hard for her own happy endings. Although occasionally it… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image