If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies. — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in fairy tales. I think it is important to have something you can lose yourself in. — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For so long, I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices, and other people have written… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An unforgettable tale of love, lust, faith, betrayal, and redemption. A powerful, mesmerizing suspense novel-a tour de force! — Judith Kelman Copy Share Image
I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
The unsparing savagery of stories like the Robber Bridegroom is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture… — Maria Tatar Copy Share Image
My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Frank Berliners spiritual memoir is beautifully crafted and written. It is a tale about love, and the great longing that springs from… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
How do things, whether they are movies, or plays, Hamilton, or people, ideas - how do they become transformative or iconic? That… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
My inspiration is my life, what I see happening around me. It can be history and, quite often, plain traditional fairy tales.… — Michel Ocelot Copy Share Image
I adopted a healthier diet. I take at least a tablespoon of apple-cider vinegar a day. It's an old wives' tale, but… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science,… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once." "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
Victor Vigny: It is like the old fairy tale. The boy saves the princess; they fall in love. He invents a flying… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
I call her Wild Woman, for those very words, wild and woman, create llamar o tocar a la puerta, the fairy-tale knock… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
That's just me wanting that supernatural tool to tell a story and also not wanting to be restricted by reality, with how… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
“There were two things about this particular book ( The Golden Book of Fairy Tales ) that made it vital to the… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Magical, yes, but THE SNOW CHILD is also satisfyingly realistic in its depiction of 1920s homestead-era Alaska and the people who settled… — Andromeda Romano-Lax Copy Share Image
We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy… — Yakov Smirnoff Copy Share Image
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in… — Plato Copy Share Image
“If you do a good deed to reap the reward of blessings, wouldn't you be performing a selfish act?” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
There is a tale...It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
Have you ever been tempted to start your own business? First read this cautionary tale, especially if you think your ideas come… — Phil Vischer Copy Share Image
The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe! — William Falconer Copy Share Image
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world. — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine. — John Milton Copy Share Image
I love fairy tales because I think that behind fairy tales, there is always a meaning. — Monica Bellucci Copy Share Image
He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Folk tales are the most authentic way of understanding a region, its legend and people. — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
“They loved fairy tales so much. If they ever got here and saw everything we've seen, I doubt they would have left.” — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
