Best 305 quotes in «fairy tale quotes» category

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've always loved fairy tales and magic - especially twisting them on their ears and poor trolls have always had such a bad rep.

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

It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had.

It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale, and he has held it captive ever since.

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.

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

It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth.

It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life.

I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.

Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.

Kami'd always retold her fairy tales to make the fair maidens braver and more self-sufficient, but she had never had any real objection to the handsome prince.

Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement.

Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.

Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between

Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun.

Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.

Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

My family was big on sharing. I guess it was just the way I was brought up. Or maybe, I read those fairy tales in which one good turn elicits another. But in writing, yes, some older writers were kind to me when I was young; although some others were not.

Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.

Make a fairy tale and go and live in it.

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.

My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.

My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes a direct entrance to the fearful, commonplace, splendid and the average grotesque banality in life.

My inspiration is my life, what I see happening around me. It can be history and, quite often, plain traditional fairy tales. But I never adapt; I nourish myself with old stories, and then create my own tales.

No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast But I remain the same, up to the last!

No, the light is too intense; we do not yet have eyes that can see all the glory God has created. But maybe someday we will have such eyes. That will be the most wonderful fairy tale of all, for we ourselves will be part of it.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked.

My favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz. I love the fairy tale of it. And Gone With the Wind was always one of my favorites because it's so dramatic and stunning.

Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!

Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.

Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true.

Science Fiction: fairy tales for nerds.

Oh yeah. That's why. Like a fairy tale. I was marrying the Prince. I just happened to be in love with the pauper.

Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies.

Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se.

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.

The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't.

She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.

Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.

Sure, I love fairy tales.

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable.

The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.

The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale.

The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic things. They're about basic fears or longings or desires or fantasies, and stuff like that.

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.