Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered… — Homer Copy Share Image
Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
It [the Earth] was breathtakingly beautiful, like something out of a fairy tale. There is no way to describe the joy of… — Valentina Tereshkova Copy Share Image
Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I believe in fairy tales. They are the basis of all our performance of storytelling and film-making - when we twist the… — Charles Sturridge Copy Share Image
Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And you must tell the child the legends I told you--as my mother told them to me and her mother to her.… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting? Better go drunk and begging round the taverns. Khayyam, drink wine, for… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
The children know all about everything so well that it never occurs to them to play at the situations in any one… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
A wonder tale can be truer than true," I said. I had learned (...) that the deepest kind of truth can be… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
I attended school regularly for three years. I learned to read and write. 'Lamb's Tales' from Shakespeare was my favourite reading matter.… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
You actually do confront your dark side, your impulses, or your feelings of sibling rivalry in Cinderella or whatever. You admit that… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict… — Nick Turse Copy Share Image
I get an incredible thrill and satisfaction from seeing somebody with Apple’s tell-tale white earbuds. But I’m constantly haunted by thoughts of,… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul. With a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of… — Jack Nelson Copy Share Image
The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
I have many, many editions of the books, and they are all rather different. In the end, the one I used was… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“For the others, it was still just a tale, like all the tales we told, night by night, tales comical and strange,… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about… — Timothy West Copy Share Image
I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Pure poetry in motion. A swift-moving, heartfelt tale of love and loss, two stories intersecting-an d connecting-by magic. Michelle Baker is a… — Trent Zelazny Copy Share Image
The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
[As of November 17, 2006] 'Noelle's Treasure Tale' has remained at No. 3 on the New York Times children's best seller list… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Violence has been a part of storytelling forever and there's obviously a reason for it. Fairy tales are really violent, the original… — Jane Levy Copy Share Image
Just as Hanukkah candles are lighted one by one from a single flame, so the tale of the miracle is passed from… — Judah Leon Magnes Copy Share Image
Creating one single story often requires experimenting and planning and falling on your literary rear more than once before you find the… — Nancy Lam Copy Share Image
Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
I think people are interested in anything that's a little bigger than life and that's colorful and - you know, what they… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as fairy tales. it does not exist in reality. . . but there is always a happy ending.… — Caryll Amoyan Copy Share Image
Love in the real world doesn’t usually work out the way stories make us think it should. We don’t always get fairy-tale… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I love the stories of changelings and the thought that the Fey were these ancient, capricious creatures who were tricky and dangerous.… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There are a whole lot of little tales told in 'Presumed Innocent,' whether it's about the Hobberly kid, who was an important… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous… — Robert D. Putnam Copy Share Image
The original Zal story by Ferdowsi gives a very moving account of an infant who had all odds against him - he… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image