Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew… — David Hume Copy Share Image
As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a… — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced –… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry. — Max Luthi Copy Share Image
Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge… — Erskine Caldwell 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
First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Copy Share Image
The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read, I need protection from the things in my head . . . — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive. — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an… — Danny DeVito Copy Share Image
Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's… — Eric Metaxas 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
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult… — Joseph Campbell 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
Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There seems to be a real taste for the fantastical these days. People like to get back into their imaginations. Maybe there's… — Sasha Roiz Copy Share Image
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