Fairy Tale quotes
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Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!
-- Adam Gidwitz -
This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.
-- Alex Flinn -
Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
-- Alice Hoffman -
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
-- Alice Hoffman -
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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.
-- Amanda Seyfried -
Why can't love be a fairy tale?
-- Amy Davis -
We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
-- Anais Nin -
Make a fairy tale and go and live in it.
-- Annabel Tollman -
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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.
-- Anthony Holden -
I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.
-- Armie Hammer -
Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.
-- Azar Nafisi -
American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.
-- Bertrand Tavernier -
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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
-- Beverly Cleary -
Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret
-- Brian Selznick -
I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales
-- Carol Ann Duffy -
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?
-- Cate Tiernan -
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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.
-- Colleen Atwood -
Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.
-- Colleen Atwood -
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.
-- Dara O Briain -
Some fairy tales end with the girl marrying the prince... some start there.
-- Diane von Furstenberg -
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Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales
-- Don Henley -
Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.
-- Duane Gish -
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!
-- Edmond Rostand -
I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.
-- Elisabeth Rohm -
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Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies.
-- Ernie J Zelinski -
Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
-- Fareed Zakaria -
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.
-- Frederick Leboyer -
Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
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Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.
-- Gena Showalter -
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
-- George Santayana -
It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.
-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -
The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale,
-- Grace Kelly -
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Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.
-- Hans Christian Andersen -
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.
-- Hans Christian Andersen -
Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the kind of logic that you only really experience when youre not feeling very well, or as a child.
-- Helen Oyeyemi -
This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws.
-- Ilsa J. Bick -
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Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.
-- Jack Vance -
Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.
-- Jack Zipes -
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.
-- Jack Zipes -
Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.
-- Jane Yolen -
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I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really.
-- Jennifer Ellison -
My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.
-- Joan Chen -
Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.
-- John Howe -
Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales
-- Jostein Gaarder -
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I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.
-- Julie Kagawa -
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.
-- Juno Temple -
From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages there is no reality.
-- Kate Bernheimer -
She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.
-- Kate Forsyth -
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As a self-respecting dude, I'd never believed in fairy tales, but in that moment, I did. I'd found my angel to live happily-ever-after with.
-- Katie Ashley -
I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
-- Lana Parrilla -
The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't.
-- Lauren Beukes -
Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.
-- Lauren Miller -
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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.
-- Lily Cole -
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.
-- Lisa Kleypas -
I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.
-- Lotte Reiniger -
To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.
-- Marc Chagall -
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A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
-- Marie Curie -
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.
-- Marina Warner -
The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of Friends, a fairy tale and a murder mystery.
-- Maureen Corrigan -
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.
-- Max Beckmann -
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Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se.
-- Max Landis -
Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.
-- Max Luthi -
Sure, I love fairy tales.
-- Maynard James Keenan -
And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying.
-- Meg Cabot -
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It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had.
-- Megan Hart -
Remember all fairy tales end at some point.
-- Melissa de la Cruz -
I want to believe in the fairy tale.
-- Monica Murphy -
I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me
-- Natalia Kills -
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Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.
-- Neil Jordan -
To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.
-- Nelly Sachs -
The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.
-- Paul Davies -
When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.
-- Paul Henderson -
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Evolution is a fairy tale for adults
-- Paul Lemoine -
Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to.
-- Phoebe Stone -
We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.
-- Ransom Riggs -
Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes.
-- Robert Lopez -
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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.
-- Rufus Wainwright -
I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.
-- Rupert Sanders -
I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.
-- Sandra Cisneros -
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.
-- Savielly Tartakower -
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Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.
-- Sergei Lukyanenko -
But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.
-- Simone Elkeles -
You once told me that I make you believe in the impossible. You make me believe in love, which I’d given up on. Thank you for proving to me it’s not just a fairy tale.
-- Simone Elkeles -
Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.
-- Stan Lee -
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The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him -- or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness.
-- Susan Faludi -
At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power
-- Susan Wiggs -
Fairy-tales are nice.
-- Syd Barrett -
Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything changes.
-- Trina Schart Hyman -
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To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.
-- W. H. Auden -
Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.
-- Walter Ulbricht -
Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement.
-- Welwyn Wilton Katz -
Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.
-- William Irwin Thompson -
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The dead have need of fairy tales too.
-- Zbigniew Herbert -
If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.
-- Juan Antonio Bayona -
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.
-- Laurie Foos -
I am very much interested in fairy tales. I guess that most of the films I like to do have this kind of aspect.
-- Lucile Hadzihalilovic -
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I don't think anything is as magical as a fairy tale experience by a child.
-- Mary Ann Hoberman -
Fairy tales have a hidden power, and their appeal never ends. They're the best way to get messages across.
-- Michel Ocelot -
Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally free.
-- Michel Ocelot -
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.
-- Michel Ocelot -
