Best 305 quotes in «fairy tale quotes» category

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 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.

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.

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.

Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!

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.

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

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

Science Fiction: fairy tales for nerds.

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

The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.

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

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

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

Sure, I love fairy tales.

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 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.

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

There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.

The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.

This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.

We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling about it. We were children loving our children. And that's who we are still.

This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws.

To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things.To do these things is to make fairy tales come true.

Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.

We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes.

We often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true.

We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters

...which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince?

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.

When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!

Why can't love be a fairy tale?

A common question asked of Mr. Fenn was, “How old is the boy?” to which Mr. Fenn’s reply, year after year, was, “He has been somewhere between twelve and thirteen since the day I laid eyes on him.

Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.