#tales

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #tales




Think of every fairy-tale villainess you've ever heard of. Think of the wicked witches, the evil queens, the mad enchantresses. Think of the alluring sirens, the hungry ogresses, the savage she-beasts. Think of them and remember that somewhere, sometime, they've all been real. Mab gave them lessons.


Jim Butcher


#fairy-tales #lessons

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.


W.H. Auden


#fairies

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.


Alice Hoffman


#stories #fairies

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.


John Connolly


#fantasy #stories #fairies

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.


Kate Morton


#fairies

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.


Albert Einstein


#fantasy

While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.


Pat Brown


#being #brought #business #caught #famous

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.


Danny DeVito


#amazing #father #felt #footnote #his

It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!


Hans Christian Andersen


#beauty #dreams #ducks #empowerment #fairy-tales

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.


Andrew Wyeth


#aloud #became #especially #father #history