Best 305 quotes in «fairy tale quotes» category

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

Do you believe in fairy tales?" "What...what kind of fairy tales?" "The kind you aren't supposed to waste your life on.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.

Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything changes.

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Fairy-tales are nice.

Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally free.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have to save ourselves.

How could you do nothing to him, if you fought so hard?” she asked. “I’m lust and he’s wrath!” he yelled. “I’m a lover, he’s a fighter!” Virtue - A Fairy Tale

Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece.

Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.

Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with a kind of metaphorical look at some aspect of our lives.

I am very much interested in fairy tales. I guess that most of the films I like to do have this kind of aspect.

I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

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

I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

I'd been right from the start - soulmates were for fairy tales. In real life, people were just people, and they couldn't be trusted.

I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.

I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

I don't think anything is as magical as a fairy tale experience by a child.

I have to believe in fairy tales and I have to believe in love.

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales

I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.

I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings.

I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.

I think the big thing is the fairy tale. It's taking old folk fairy tales and retelling them in modern day. I think it's just taking you out of everyday life, and everyone loves a good fairy tale.

I'm not sure if it's fair to call it a "fairy tale," but I really loved Mulan, the Disney film. It was my favorite. I guess it's not really a fairy tale, but you do get Eddie Murphy as a dragon.

In the fairy tale you mentioned last night, I would probably be the villain. But it's possible the villain would treat you far better than the prince would have.

It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.

I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.

I'm so excited to see 'Horns' because it's so many different genres in one film. It's a sci-fi, it's a love story, it's a horror movie, it's a fairy tale.

In college, I became interested in folk tales and fairy tales. Gradually I became more and more interested in the underlying meaning of it all and the possibility of the reality of real fairies.

In fairy tales there's always one person who is made for one other, and they find each other and live happily ever after. Cal was my person. I couldn't imagine anyone more perfect. Yet what kind of sick fairy tale would it be if he was the one made exactly right for me and I wasn't right for him?

It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for.

It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.