Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
“You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Everything starts with fishermen's tales. Everywhere you go the fishermen talk. — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done. — Robert Hunter Copy Share Image
Don't talk me about religion! Don't talk me about tales for children! Be serious! Trust science, because only the science can save… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks. — Garrison Keillor 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
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
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
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
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
He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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
The poet Muriel Rukeyser said the universe is composed of stories, not of atoms. The physicist Werner Heisenberg declared that the universe… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Comedy and tragedy are so mixed up in life, Gilbert. The only thing that haunts me is that tale of the two… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
For those who immerse themselves in what the fairy tale has to communicate, it becomes a deep, quiet pool which at first… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth… — Walt Disney 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
“In spite of life's unpredictable, callous ways, I still believe in fairy tales.” — Terry a O'Neal 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
Harlem is not a playground for rich bankers and consultants. It's got students of all colors. It's got old people who keep… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones. — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“SUMMIT PLUMMET Celeb's conquest of a mountain, then jumping off, too exhausted to descend Kamil Ali” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
Every kid loves fairy tales, stories of witches and giants and magicians. Then, when you get a little older you can't read… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
“You can't change destinies already written, that only happens in fairy tales.” — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the… — Robbie Kay Copy Share Image
Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life. — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I've always loved fairy tales and magic - especially twisting them on their ears and poor trolls have always had such a… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales. — Lisa Jakub Copy Share Image
Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
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