With 'Grimm,' it's a lot of fun for me to be able to play within the familiar world of fairy tales. As… — Sasha Roiz Copy Share Image
“As in most fairy tales, there's a prince and a princess, dragons and some magic, and the feeling it gives you that… — Crystal Woods Copy Share Image
But why didn't you just ask me?" I set down my fork and glare at her. "Because you were sleeping," She says,… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
“It dawned on her as she grew older, that fairy tales instilled false hopes in people, and that no white knights existed… — Alexis Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Yes sir, the fish was left in place of the crystal ball. It's been bagged and tagged for analysis.” Great. Now we… — A.F. Stewart Copy Share Image
Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The literary fairy tale became an acceptable social symbolic form through which conventionalized motifs, characters, and plots were selected, composed, arranged, and… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
The 'Mahabharata' is a more complex and longer saga than the 'Ramayana,' which is like a fairy tale. It's much lighter and… — David Farr Copy Share Image
I realized that searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming. We all grew up on… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Love was more than just a fleeting desire, or a brief glimpse into a fairy tale, or a flash of playful flirtation… — Jacqueline E. Smith Copy Share Image
Victor Vigny: It is like the old fairy tale. The boy saves the princess; they fall in love. He invents a flying… — Eoin Colfer 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
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
“The humans aren’t stupid, no matter what the purebloods say; they’re just blind, and sometimes, that’s worse. They put their fear in… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I call her Wild Woman, for those very words, wild and woman, create llamar o tocar a la puerta, the fairy-tale knock… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
My favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz. I love the fairy tale of it. And Gone With the Wind was always… — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
“Troubles of Straw Spun Into Gold Just as in the fairy tale RUMPELSTILTSKIN, God will spin your straw into gold. You won’t… — Cheryl Zelenka Copy Share Image
To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the… — Robbie Kay Copy Share Image
Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life.… — Frederick Leboyer Copy Share Image
Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
“She had a destiny, and it was wonderful, every girl’s dream. Like Sleeping Beauty, awoken from a deep sleep by a charming… — Amber Belldene Copy Share Image
The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“[Veda:] Twenty years of thinking that vampires and witches and all things supernatural were nothing but a bedtime story: a myth, thought… — Jessica Lave Copy Share Image
Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.' Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?' Yeah, but in fairy tales,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You know the fairy-tale drill, especially from the Disney versions: the heroines endure awful stuff in rites of passage that lead to… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
“LISTEN, don’t believe in fairy tales! After that happy-ever-after wedding, they never tell you the rest of the story. Even if you… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
When you're late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love's-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As I closed the door I caught a last glimpse of her through the round window, still sitting straight-backed and motionless with… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Burton sighed, laughed loudly, and said, "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose." Another fairy tale to give men hope .… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“And though the shadow of a sigh May tremble through the story, For "happy summer days" gone by, And vanish'd summer glory--… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I definitely read a lot of books on the psychology and mythology behind fairy tales because I think that's really fascinating and… — Meghan Ory Copy Share Image
The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
“In Muggle fairy tales, magic tends to lie at the root of the hero or heroine’s troubles – the wicked witch has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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