I don't know that I think women have to throw out the fairy tale ending. I just think they have to decide… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
“Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“There is yet another reason why I cannot, nor wish to, believe in God: the fairy tale about him is not really… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
'Slumdog Millionaire' is a fairy tale, but it starts in a place you really believe, and that came from spending two months… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
Kami'd always retold her fairy tales to make the fair maidens braver and more self-sufficient, but she had never had any real… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Folk tales, fairy tales, religion, the occult - these are the things I'm most passionate about, even more than cinema. And I'm… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
A parent who from his own childhood experience is convinced of the value of fairy tales will have no difficulty in answering… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
“Some seasons later, the Princess of the kingdom was riding with her handmaiden on the edge of the dark woods. Though once… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“You will not be punished for those beliefs in our nation of individual freedoms. But I do think the vast majority of… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
“The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending: or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous “turn” (for… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. Its like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“With a glance back towards the house, he pulled the secret sketches from within. He'd been working at them on and off… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl.… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
“Smartass Disciple: Master, I don’t need a fairytale.I need you to tell me the truth. Master of Stupidity: It is not funny… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
I was very excited to do 'The Witches.' It was with one of my favorite directors, Nick Roeg, and I loved his… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
“I cannot imagine a life without books. Without Father's stories of the ancient Greek gods and goddesses, without pirate stories and fairy… — Jessica Spotswood Copy Share Image
“Would you say that you're a good man, Harry?" He had to think about that. "No," he finally said. "In the fairy… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“His [(Rumpelstiltskin)] feeling that his name, which is his identity, must be kept secret, or else he'll be revealed to the world… — Joan Gould Copy Share Image
My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are not real. However, myths are the historical notes of those who were much wiser than ourselves. We therefore have… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“So he decided he would never listen to anybody he knew? That's just like someone in a fairy tale.' Knowing he had… — Pamela Dean Copy Share Image
With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“There are two types of monsters in this universe: Fairy tale monsters that will never hurt you. And human monsters living around… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
I know she's shy. I know she doesn't have very many friends. I just want her to be strong, you know? To… — Enchanted Copy Share Image
I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If somebody had told me when I was starting composition in Helsinki in the '70s that I would end up in L.A.… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Miramax seems to be showing the same faith in Roberto Benigni's 'Pinocchio' that the Republican Party showed in Trent Lott; the live-action… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
It's like what you might call Goldilocks' dilemma in the old fairy tale. Young men see women as "less than" or "better… — Michael Kimmel Copy Share Image
“Some stupid fairy tale charecter. Like a cheap plastic toy you'd get get by sending in the top of a lucky charms… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
In fairy tales there's always one person who is made for one other, and they find each other and live happily ever… — Cate Tiernan Copy Share Image
“This is how every fairy tale starts. With the storyteller explaining to the reader just how it is. There once was a… — Michael F. Stewart Copy Share Image
“I’m talking about changing the rules of the game, taking control of the field. All these pedestrian notions about morality and dignity… — S.G. Redling Copy Share Image
The reason that stepmothers are often the bad guy in fairy tales is because people died in childbirth, all the time, so… — Chris Weitz Copy Share Image
“What millions believe is often just fairy tales for children! The fabrications of the past are ridiculously accepted as the holies of… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The imagined beings have their insides on the outside; they are visible souls. And man as a whole, Man pitted against the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image