Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Selznick

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

Amanda Hocking

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

Frederick Leboyer

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.

Joan Chen

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

Lewis Carroll

Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale.

Kate Forsyth

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

Lauren Miller

Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.

Ivan Turgenev

Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.

Kristen Bell

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

Alan Moore

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Bryce Courtenay

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.

Catherynne M. Valente

And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.

Casey Stengel

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

Astrid Lindgren

Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.

Bill Nye

When or if answers are found, you can be assured those answers will lead to more questions. Is the troubling or wonderful? It depends on your view of your place in nature, your place among the stars; I suppose.

C. S. Lewis

You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair

Cheryl Strayed

Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can.

Jeff Peck

I think there's going to be a lot more peril voting for the O'Connor replacement than the Rehnquist replacement.

Richard Miller

Ronald unsettled some customary assumptions about the promises and perils of treatment enhancement.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.