Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madeleine Albright

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

Charlotte Bronte

You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!

Diana Wynne Jones

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

George Gregan

We're focusing enough on doing what we have to do to get the right result and send him off with the fairytale end.

Kate Forsyth

Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

Sandra Cisneros

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

Brian Selznick

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

Charles Perrault

Charm is the true gift of the Fairies.

Erin Morgenstern

I love that very traditional fairy tale where it's not all 'happily ever after.' I like all that old school, bloody, 'Brothers Grimm' sort of stuff. So you have all those shades of gray in there.

William Collins

By fairy hands their knell is rung; / By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

Mollie King

Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale.

Gail Carson Levine

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

'Seconds' is grounded in the reality of this restaurant environment, and I did do plenty of research, so there's that. It takes place in a town that is like a kinder, gentler fairy tale version of reality. Then it takes off into a story that is very strange, very mental.

Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.

Kara Walker

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

Gary Ross

What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.

Amanda Eliasch

Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.

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.

Amanda Hocking

I don't really like fairies.

Andre Breton

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.

Amos Oz

The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.

Elio Di Rupo

My life is a fairy tale. You could not make it up.

Jack Zipes

Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.

Mary J. Blige

When you know what pain is, and when you have to make a choice, you learn that it is a decision. People think it's a fairytale thing, love and happiness, but you have to work hard. And then - you feel it deeply.

Imelda May

I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.

NeNe Leakes

My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I'd like to go fairy tale all the way.

C. S. Lewis

Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.

It has a jazzy sound; it's a brighter, more modern fairy tale than a lot of shows we've done.

Tom Shippey

Tolkien reintroduced the world of fairy tale to a new audience. It was a very traditional image of fairy tale -- elves, dwarves, trolls, dragons, wizards. Those have all come out of fairy tales. But Tolkien put the whole thing on the map, ... A lot of that stuff is traditional material that he has codified and rationalized in a kind of 20th-century way.

Sean Durkin

We had a lot of wood to chop. It's a shame the fairy tale ride had to end here.

James M. Barrie

David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.

Joe Wright

Emma was the fairy godmother of the film; she gave wonderful advice.

This is fun. I couldn't have scripted it this way. I'm just hoping for a fairy tale ending.