Top 24 Quotes About Folktale
#2. Once upon a time ... " "In the beginning was ... " That's the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history, chronicle, myth, legend, folktale, or old wives' tale blues riff begins with "Woke up this mornin' ...
Steven Tyler
#3. The folktale world is oriented positively toward its protagonist; a folktale is defined by the hero's triumph: magic weapons and helpers are, with the necessary narrative retardation, at his beck and call.
Darko Suvin
#4. The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life ... and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.
Jill Paton Walsh
#5. I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.
Robin McKinley
#6. The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul.
Joseph Campbell
#7. Stories are the things people use to give the universe a shape ... there is little difference between a folktale, a religous revelation, and a scientific theor
Tad Williams
#8. As a child, I was fortunate enough to be close to family members who were - and still are - great storytellers. I was a gullible country boy from Rocky Mount, Virginia, and I believed every folktale they told me, no matter how fantastic.
Jesse L. Martin
#9. The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.
Paul Di Filippo
#10. I am going to add a cold beer. Why not a bottle of whiskey? Because my story is cheap and cannot afford such props. Goddamn, even my imagination is not wealthy enough to order a bottle of Jack!
Plamen Chetelyazov
#11. Not very smart," Chudo-Yudo growled. "Stalking a Baba Yaga." He showed a set of sharp white teeth. "Maybe he has a death wish. I could help with that You want me to eat him?
Deborah Blake
#12. People know their feelings much sooner than they consciously accept them.
Leah Raeder
#13. I promised you the moon for your throne and stars to wear in your hair," said Amar, gesturing inside. "And I always keep my promises.
Roshani Chokshi
#14. If you don't like me, remember it's mind over matter.
I don't mind, and you don't matter.
Dr. Seuss
#15. Together they'd run away. Together they could find a place to call home. Together they'd finally form their own constellation and never break apart again. He would be her starlight again and she his sun.
Hella Grichi
#16. He spoke!" Ivan said, eyes wide. "The dog talked! Oh my god."
"An ancient witch you can believe in, but not a talking dragon that looks like a dog?" Chudo-Yudo said, sounding slightly piqued. "Hmph. Young people today have such limited imaginations.
Deborah Blake
#17. I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.
Mahatma Gandhi
#18. The Dreamer awakes
The shadow goes by
The tale I have told you,
That tale is a lie.
But listen to me,
Bright maiden, proud youth
The tale is a lie;
What it tells is the truth.
Traditional Folktale Ending
#19. People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.
David Nicholls
#20. Nowadays, we have so few mysteries left to us that we cannot afford to part with one of them.
Oscar Wilde
#21. When you're making a film, it's a very technical process. You do things over and over again, and you have to hit your marks and your light and all that stuff.
James Marsden
#22. The challenge is quite formidable if you spell it out explicitly: artists must look at a three-dimensional scene with their two-dimensional retinas and then generate a two-dimensional painting that appears three-dimensional to viewers who look at it with their two-dimensional retinas.
Margaret S. Livingstone
#23. The people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves.
David Brooks
#24. The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue, Mildly and soft the western breeze Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees, And the pleased lake, like maiden coy, Trembled but dimpled not for joy.
Walter Scott
