Fairy Quote by William Irwin Thompson Download Open image “Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.” — William Irwin Thompson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cultural Storage Fairy Fairy tale Fairy tales Form History History of life Idealism Life Myth Myths Natural Natural history Storage Storytelling Tales Tales Myths
Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
“Over the last three centuries our historical reception of folk and fairy tales has been so negatively twisted by aesthetic norms, educational standards and… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time. — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say,… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Of course, fairy tales are transmissible. You can catch them, or be infected by them. They are the currency that we share with those… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages. — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“I see folktales and myths as humankind's first stories. They are a kind of collective dreaming, filled with timeless symbols and images we can… — Marianna Mayer Copy Share Image
“Studies [on the origin of fairy-stories] are, however, scientific (at least in intent); they are the pursuit of folklorists or anthropologists: that is of… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
The planets are not hunks of stuff out there but nodes of vibration that resonate in multiple dimensions that enfold themselves into one another… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy. — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World. — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth. — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
What is at the higher levels of meaning consciousness is like a hyperspace in which each point is equidistant from the other and where… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered. — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the darkness we call reality.… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
“You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.” — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“ Happily-ever-afters don't come in happily-every-days . They are found at the end of challenges-ever-met, promises-ever-kept, and tears-ever-wept.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“But even if they could go home it would be difficult for me to tell you what the moral of the story is. In… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
One of the first houses we lived in was like out of a fairy story. We had a stream that ran through our garden,… — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
“If two people see a fairy appear, eat a starfish, and dive into the tile floor without so much as a splash, neither can… — Kaydeon K. Moore Copy Share Image
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to… — Sharon Olds 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 are reborn… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
In his anti-Darwinian book... (and eponymously named The Neck of the Giraffe ), Francis Hitching tells the story... "The need to survive by reaching… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image