This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on.… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence… — Ursula Goodenough 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
Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
[Polo Is My Life] is what's called a sex book - you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated;… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other… — Salman Rushdie 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,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. — Alexandre Dumas 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
A cult hero? I don't think of myself as any kind of hero. I don't want to say it's a fairy tale,… — Jeremy Shockey Copy Share Image
If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation. — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
Let children have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times; heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales,… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
The Princess Bride S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure You had to admire a guy who called his… — William Goldman 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
Fairy tales have a hidden power, and their appeal never ends. They're the best way to get messages across. — Michel Ocelot Copy Share Image