True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a… — Charles James Copy Share Image
A parent who from his own childhood experience is convinced of the value of fairy tales will have no difficulty in answering… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found… — George Sand Copy Share Image
A tale is told of twin boys born to different mothers. One is dark by nature, the other light. One is rich,… — Matthew Woodring Stover Copy Share Image
In 56 A.D. [the apostle] Paul wrote that over 500 people had seen the risen Jesus and that most of them were… — John Warwick Montgomery Copy Share Image
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
O' beautiful for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Edward Said talks about Orientalism in very negative terms because it reflects the prejudices of the west towards the exotic east. But… — Craig Thompson Copy Share Image
Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
What a wonderful work Wagner has done for humanity in translating the toil of life into the readable script of music! For… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
We have a long way to go to being the perfect couple, we certainly don’t live the fairy tale marriage, he doesn’t… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
“There was a nice brown egg, lightly boiled, for each of them, and then sardines on toast, and then buttered toast, and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the… — Kate Horsley Copy Share Image
On the professional side, I've helped move cinema from a chemical-based medium to a digital-based medium. That'll be one of the landmarks.… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
By turns sad and uplifting, Life in the Valley of Death tells the amazing tale of Alan Rabinowitz's courageous and spirited efforts… — Thant Myint-U Copy Share Image
Do you mean to say," asked Caspian, "that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's just that, right now, I want to hear you promise me that if we do run out of time and I… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
I feel any time you enter a dream world it's like you're working out things, it's all inside your mind and you're… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
I HAVE no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often implied, especially in tales written to teach children to be good,… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Disney is a huge presence when it comes to fairy tales because he’s made of them such brilliant artifacts in terms of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I think a lot of times it just looks like Hollywood actors in Halloween costumes, you know? And I think what we’re… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
This country needs room to grow and expand. In all my own newspapers I read frightful tales of the shameful atrocities being… — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
“There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
I love memoirs, particularly obscure ones because the writer is usually a regular guy just telling what happened to him and to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world.… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
Well, there's a Book that says we're all sinners and I at least chose a sin that's made quite a few people… — Sally Stanford Copy Share Image
Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If asked to sketch a picture of the typical archer I would be hard put. They seem to come in all shapes,… — Fred Bear Copy Share Image
The Dead and Those About to Die is a gripping, first-hand account of the desperate battle for Omaha Beach on D-Day by… — Carlo D'Este Copy Share Image
Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
The paradox: there can be no pilgrimage without a destination, but the destination is also not the real point of the endeavor.… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
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