Fairy tales have a hidden power, and their appeal never ends. They're the best way to get messages across.
The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.
A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.
The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable.
A false tale often betrays itself.
Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness.
I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.
Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally free.
We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters
All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back and forth behind our days, but those tales grow too and shake us just as fierce.
Fairy tales only happen in movies. " -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret
And you must tell the child the legends I told you - as my mother told them to me and her mother to her. You must tell the fairy tales of the old country. You must tell of those not of the earth who live forever in the hearts of the people.
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 don't think anything in all one's intellecutal life can be compared to these delights of imagination.
For a while I got into the South Pacific theater of World War II. I read "American Caesar" by William Manchester, the biography of General MacArthur. Because of that I ended up reading "Tales of the South Pacific" by James Michener and then because of that reading his "Hawaii. " That is what happens.
Good Advice If your best friend's feeling tearful, Try not to be too cheerful. Just let her fill your ear full Of sad tales by the score. And when she is through, She'll feel as good as new. Now you'll be feeling blue. But that's what friends are for!
The paradox: there can be no pilgrimage without a destination, but the destination is also not the real point of the endeavor. Not the destination, but the willingness to wander in pursuit characterizes pilgrimage. Willingness: to hear the tales along the way, to make the casual choices of travel, to acquiesce even to boredom. That's pilgrimage -- a mind full of journey.
The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.
Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.
I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them
Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.