Some fairy tales end with the girl marrying the prince... some start there. — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Tales are not created to tell the truth, the truth as relative as everything else in life” — أميرة الشربيني Amira Elsherbiny Copy Share Image
An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless? — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are about lessons. Those who are virtuous and true are rewarded, while those who are wicked and greedy are punished.” — Meagan Spooner Copy Share Image
I liked that sort of thing, those one-off stories like 'Tales of the Unexpected,' 'Hammer House of Horror,' 'The Twilight Zone' and… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
You can believe in originals only if you just don't know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
In his dream she was sick and he cared for her. The dream bore the look of sacrifice but he thought differently.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
I wake each day and try to see what I might do that is of some value and joy. It's a strange… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“None of the harvest tales started out as parasites. They were the most powerful pieces of the narrative, once upon a time.… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
From my point of view, why shouldn't I work in every possible mode, to see if it's viable? "Los Gigantes" would not… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I am still confused as to why they chose to lie and tried to make me a legend when the real heroics… — Jessica Lynch Copy Share Image
She had sacrificed her childhood to save her brothers; she loved her family above all else, and her spirits yearned to return… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is… — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
“RACE CARE Anagram/Acronym: Respect, Accept & Coexist Ethnically Kamil Ali” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
