For some reason, I write about crash-landed spaceships quite a lot and my wife is sick of hearing of hearing my ideas… — Erica Brown Copy Share Image
Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to. — Phoebe Stone 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
Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies. — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
Only - only that, if you believe the tales, it's in the nature of our people to go to war and to… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
I liked that sort of thing, those one-off stories like 'Tales of the Unexpected,' 'Hammer House of Horror,' 'The Twilight Zone' and… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Folk tales are my favourite form of story telling. They not only just adjust the reader according to the world it is… — Shweta Basu Prasad 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
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
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
Anyone can buy a car or a night on the town. Most of us shell our days like peanuts. One in a… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Romance novels are tales of brave women taming dangerous men. They are stories that capture the excitement of that most mysterious of… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
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
The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
Be deaf unto the suggestions of tale-bearers, calumniators, pick-thank or malevolent detractors, who, while quiet men sleep, sowing the tares of discord… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make to them; a man may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows;… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, love is such a normal thing, and everyone deals with it. Just because it's a different… — Selena Gomez Copy Share Image
The Islamic terror threat is so fierce, unrelenting and barbaric that we tell ourselves fairy tales about how these ruthless acts are… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
A sense of humor is rare. It isn't telling a joke about how there are three ways to get to heaven. It's… — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
I definitely read a lot of books on the psychology and mythology behind fairy tales because I think that's really fascinating and… — Meghan Ory Copy Share Image
Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident. — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Everything wonderful in appearance has been ascribed to angels, to devils, or to saints. Everything ancient has some legendary tale annexed to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Once upon a time . . .” “In the beginning was . . .” That’s the way it always starts off. Every… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
I did my acting performance in 'Roger Rabbit.' I think I did a voice-over also in 'Osmosis Jones' and I directed an… — Joel Silver Copy Share Image
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
I look at my kids as the Harry Potter Generation. There's a sense of justice about that, in beating Voldemort. It's a… — Mike Dirnt Copy Share Image
Burton sighed, laughed loudly, and said, "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose." Another fairy tale to give men hope .… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises.… — Kealan Patrick Burke 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 Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I…” quote by George Sand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4a/george-sand-1753_chiefs_i-loved-fairy-stories-so-and-my-mother-w_1388127.jpg)
