Best 305 quotes in «fairy tale quotes» category

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

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

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

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 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 love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.

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.

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.

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?

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 is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Make a fairy tale and go and live in it.

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, 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.

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.

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.

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!

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!

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.