The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest nursery fairy tale-as the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“I used to be a girl who believed in fairy tales. You know, the whole knight in shining armour riding in on… — Erin Noelle Copy Share Image
Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
In 2006, I appeared before a House subcommittee considering real estate reform. It was like visiting the capital for the 'Hunger Games'… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those… — Marina Warner 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
“A football dream is easy to spot. Turn on SportsCenter and they’ll show you what it looks like. Tom Brady’s life. Peyton… — Nate Jackson Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children. Every time I’m in a mess I expect a long-haired posh-speaking man… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“In the mid–path of my life, I woke to find myself in a dark wood,' writes Dante, in The Divine Comedy, beginning… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderella" and her shoe… — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
“Kids grow up hearing fairy tales, but the biggest fairy tale of all, I realized at the age of four, is that… — David Kushner Copy Share Image
“An imagined order must be made to make thousands of people believe in the same ideas for them to understand one another… — Read trepreneur Copy Share Image
“Sweetheart, happily ever after does exist, it’s just not what you think,” he said. “Happily ever after isn’t a solution to life’s… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
“Wow,” I breathe as we walk along the road past the parked cars, and come to an arched gate set in a… — Lauren Henderson Copy Share Image
“Silence is another element we find in classic fairy tales — girls muted by magic or sworn to silence in order to… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind,… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“This story was written many moons ago under an apple tree in an orchard in Kent, which is one of England's prettiest… — Anonymous 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
The unblemished ideal exists only in happily-ever-after fairy tales. Ruth likes to say, "If two people agree on everything, one of them… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“Eleanor had heard talk of the rebellion that existed inside the city of Constance before. Most of the information she gathered was… — Ross Caligiuri Copy Share Image
“In England in the 19th century, advances in printing methods, combined with the rise of a prosperous middle class, engendered a booming… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales in childhood are stepping stones throughout life, leading the way through trouble and trial. The value of fairy tales lies… — L.R. Knost Copy Share Image
“told you once this could be a fairy tale if you let it. And I told you the part I’d play in… — Callie Hart Copy Share Image
“You remember the fairy tales you were told when you were very small - 'once upon a time...' Why do you think… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
“It might be noted here that Freudian analysts of fairy tales have suggested that kissing toads and frogs is symbolized fellatio. In… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Simon?” “Yeah?” “Can you tell me a story?” He blinked. “What kind of story?” “Something where the good guys win and the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Copy Share Image
“We believe in the wrong things. That's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t exactly a stranger to feeling like a princess—if you meant the princess in the first half of the fairy tale.… — Cara Lynn Shultz Copy Share Image
“Rachel thinks, What long fingers Mama has, like wands in fairy tales. All the better to conduct with my dear! Ekaterina Wolff… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
“The marquis de Carabas was not a good man, and he knew himself well enough to be perfectly certain that he was… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
What can I expect here? You know the fairy tale about the man who died, don’t you? He was waiting in Eternity… — Anna Seghers Copy Share Image
“The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood: how shortsighted that is! As though we would… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
I said I didn't respect religion... and anyone who believes in fairy tales to answer questions that we can't answer... So I… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“She could have been a figure in a Welsh fairy tale, a nymph who had formed from the mist off a lake.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“(Take a deep breath for this next run-on sentence) I believe that two people can fall madly in love and sift that… — Zack Oates Copy Share Image
“Kit had hardly known Esme for no more than a single day; and yet, he mourned for her past injustices, greatly. For… — Kristina Stangl Copy Share Image
“After a week's worth of failed fairy tales—stories that made my eyelids flutter open and not shut—my father tried telling me stories… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
![“This story was written many moons ago under an apple tree in an orchard in Kent, which is one of England's prettiest counties . . . I had read at least twenty of the [fairy tales] when I noticed something that had never struck me before--I suppose because I had always taken it for granted. All the…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4c4/m-m-kaye-2-174703_fairy-tale_this-story-was-written-many-moons-ago-un_337310.jpg)
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