Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms [the child] to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
My dad was a Muslim and would pray five times a day. I would pray with him as much as I could,… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long for something… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Heart's ease! one could look for half a day Upon this flower, and shape in fancy out Full twenty different tales of… — Mary Howitt Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd have children; I never thought I'd be in love, I never thought I'd meet the right person. Having… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better time, consciousness… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
That's how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“We are all tellers of tales, and we seek to provide our scattered and often confusing experiences with a sense of coherence… — Dan P. McAdams Copy Share Image
My writing has to excite people and depict or include their experiences. That's part of my process - to go out and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A heartwarming tale of Christmas past that's chock full of all the wit and hilarity we admire in America's favorite humorist--Mark Twain.… — Gilbert King Copy Share Image
With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still,… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Less and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly. More and more often there is… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
It’s my own fault, really. For believing in fairy tales. Not that I ever mistook them for actual historical fact, or anything.… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory, where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough… — Brunonia Barry Copy Share Image
I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Don't Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
When I was doing 'Tales from Hollywood' at the National, I was invited to dinner by the choreographer, Kenneth MacMillan. He told… — Michael Gambon Copy Share Image
Therefore, teaching, talk and tale, however lucid or fascinating, effect nothing until self-activity be set up; that is, self-education is the only… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop… — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
Kindred’s tale is a romantic, mature, and lyrical collage of heaven, hell, and a magical royal legend. The combination is divinely—and demonically—inspired. — Alethea Kontis Copy Share Image
[Frida Farell] also wanted the film to serve as a cautionary tale for young women - to say, "Be careful when an… — Rudolf Buitendach Copy Share Image
I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve… — J. California Cooper Copy Share Image
He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While some of the tales of woe emanating from the court are enough to bring tears to the eyes, it is true… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down… — Joseph Furphy Copy Share Image
Say it: I am determined to live a happy life no matter my challenges! I will turn all my tales of fury… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.To empower others in their reaching… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
![“Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms [the child] to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.” quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f78/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_children_exactly-what-the-fairy-tale-does-is-this_2166819.jpg)
![“[Frida Farell] also wanted the film to serve as a cautionary tale for young women - to say, "Be careful when an attractive man asks you to go to a casting or a photo shoot, because it might be a demon in disguise."” quote by Rudolf Buitendach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ae3/rudolf-buitendach-44228_asks_frida-farell-also-wanted-the-film-to-ser_3230995.jpg)
![“I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve read fairy tales, you know that everything can talk,from trees to chairs to tables to brooms. So I grew up thinking that, and I turned it into stories.” quote by J. California Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1f5/j-california-cooper-38277_brooms_i-was-telling-stories-before-i-could-wri_2320291.jpg)
