Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore. — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“A folklore study differs from most writing, in that the tale is told in the voice of the individual telling the story,… — Karen Jones Gowen Copy Share Image
Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
I just love rolling up my sleeves and doing research, and I especially love doing research on the origins of folklore and… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
“There are thousands of folklore, but in every case the sacrifice must have been kept up.” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Careful, even now, not to thank the wights, she added, "You have all been most kind.” — Cecilia Dart-Thornton Copy Share Image
I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people… We are a nation rich in rivers. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
“The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that we are, all… — J. Aleksandr Wootton Copy Share Image
“A midwife once told Erszébet of the üszögös gyermek, the stunted child, a premature fetus born alive, a scurrying spectral thing with… — Jody Shields Copy Share Image
I was interested in dark subject matter for sure, including folklore, fairy tales, mythology, archetypal stories of people going into the bowels… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
“The Dreamer awakes The shadow goes by The tale I have told you, That tale is a lie. But listen to me,… — Traditional folktale ending Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by films from the early '50s, especially Jean Simmons in 'The Clouded Yellow' - and by vintage swing, psychobilly gigs,… — Maxine Peake Copy Share Image
Mulan is so important in Chinese folklore - a fearless girl who cared about her family and country so much that she… — Ming-Na Wen Copy Share Image
The fact that I seem to prefer seals over any other animal brides is something I hadn't actually realized until this moment.… — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
People get overwhelmed with folklore as fact. Take the Exodus. The Exodus did not occur. It could not have occurred. Wasn't necessary… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I wasn't into Tolkien at school really. But the story is timeless, the themes that it touches on are contained in cultures… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
I think - since I was about 7 years old - that was when I was first introduced to the comics called… — S. S. Rajamouli Copy Share Image
Witches never existed, except in people’s minds. All there was in the olden days was women and some men who believed in… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Undertaker certainly is a cornerstone of WWE, and just as I say to myself that I really would have liked to been… — John Cena Copy Share Image
The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to… — Weston La Barre Copy Share Image
The feeling of New Orleans is so pervasive. It's such a strange and decadent and enchanted embrace that that city has. There's… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
Environmental policies are driven by a kind of emotional spiritualism that threatens the very foundation of our society. There is increasing evidence… — Helen Chenoweth-Hage Copy Share Image
“Can't we make a blusterer ourselves? asked Jón Hreggviðsson. Can't we scratch that damned sign with the ax-point onto the chopping block… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“There are a number of good books that draw upon fox legends -- foremost among them, Kij Johnson's exquisite novel The Fox… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“It was a sort of car that seemed to have a faculty for motion with an absolute lack of any accompanying sound… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“Long ago, when faeries and men still wandered the earth as brothers, the MacLeod chief fell in love with a beautiful faery… — Signe Pike Copy Share Image
“Some years ago I had a conversation with a man who thought that writing and editing fantasy books was a rather frivolous… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Early Summer, loveliest season, The world is being colored in. While daylight lasts on the horizon, Sudden, throaty blackbirds sing. The dusty-colored… — Marie Heaney Copy Share Image
“Finally, I’d say to anyone who wants to tell these tales, don’t be afraid to be superstitious. If you have a lucky… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Our house was an old Tudor mansion. My father was very particular in keeping the smallest peculiarities of his home unaltered. Thus… — John Berwick Harwood Copy Share Image
Folklore provides a socially sanctioned outlet for the discussion of the forbidden and taboo. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
