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… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
“I remember a time where Trolls were a fictitious monster from fairy tales, not arseholes on the internet looking for attention.” — Robert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“This isn’t some sweet Disney bedtime story. This is a real fairy tale. With death, and blood, and suffering. And I never… — Craig Schaefer Copy Share Image
Fairy tales have a hidden power, and their appeal never ends. They're the best way to get messages across. — Michel Ocelot Copy Share Image
A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per… — Max Landis Copy Share Image
“How did I go from being the maiden in a fairy tale to a wretched old maids so quickly? It happened almost… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
I went to the library as soon as I could walk. So the training came from reading all kinds of people, from… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“She dreamt in shades of amethyst, drinking the deep purple elixir in ballads of wood nymphs, tiptoeing by elves that hid in… — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image
The unsparing savagery of stories like the Robber Bridegroom is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture… — Maria Tatar Copy Share Image
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,… — Juno Temple Copy Share Image
There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that… — Jocko Willink Copy Share Image
'Seconds' is grounded in the reality of this restaurant environment, and I did do plenty of research, so there's that. It takes… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
My inspiration is my life, what I see happening around me. It can be history and, quite often, plain traditional fairy tales.… — Michel Ocelot Copy Share Image
My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Throughout history, religions and ideologies did not sanctify life itself. They always sanctified something above or beyond earthly existence, and were consequently… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Success for me is to feel happy - 80 percent of the time. That's been my goal in life. I think that… — January Jones Copy Share Image
In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“Instead of celebrating with a cake (too full of poisonous refined sugars) and presents (too materialistic), my mother would come into my… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
“The notion of a natural propensity for vice is essential to Sadeian psychology; vice is innate, as is virtue, if social conditions… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“All eyes flew to the entrance. A great gray stallion reared up in the doorway, its breath frosting the air with puffs… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
In horror stories or in fairy tales, the fascination with the morbid is also, at least for me, a way to prepare… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
I never saw fairy tales as an escape or a cop-out... On the contrary, speaking for myself, it is the way to… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“Then I shall bid thee goodnight, my dear. Sweet pixies watch over the dusty moonlight of your dreams, Jessameine.” — Jennifer Silverwood Copy Share Image
[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really. — Jennifer Ellison Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry. — Max Luthi Copy Share Image
She looks like a fairy tale, but yet feels so natural (natural, natural, natural) This one's a beast, but way to wonderful… — DJ Drama Copy Share Image
If Im honest, I have to tell you I still read fairy tales and I like them best of all. — Bubbly Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there was a girl who was special. This is not her story. Unless you count the part where… — R.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
“In the stories, the old fairy tales, a hero comes. But all my heroes are gone or dead. No one is coming… — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I played a bee! It was a Polish fairy tale we performed at school when I was seven or eight. I had… — Joanna Kulig Copy Share Image
“Clichés are relatives of the fairy tale, and tropes aren’t bad; they go with the territory.” — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the opening scene -- are… — Ada Calhoun Copy Share Image
Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun. — Carlton Mellick III Copy Share Image
“This man might have been God sent; but this same God had also forsaken her in the past, too.” — Kristina Stangl Copy Share Image
Snow White has always been one of my favorite fairy tales growing up. To be able to say, "I'm going to be… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image