Throughout any given season of 'The Bachelor,' the women exclaim that the experience is like a fairy tale. They suffer the machinations… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I'm used to writing fairy tales that can be somewhat dark, and the truth is that in fairy tales, romances are always… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“The fairy tale belongs to the poor...I know of no fairy tale which upholds the tyrant, or takes the part of the… — Erik Christian Haugaard 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
For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In all likelihood fairies of larger stature were ancient gods in a state of decay, while their diminutive congeners were the swarming… — Lewis Spence 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
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
“Please tell a story about a girl who gets away.” I would, even if I had to adapt one, even if I… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“She might not be cinderella to lose her shoe to find her prince or Rapunzel for that matter who will lift him… — Awwthentic Copy Share Image
I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up… — Ariana Grande Copy Share Image
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
ROXANE: Live, for I love you! CYRANO: No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!'… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The fairy who was not old, not young, who was red roses, white snowfall, who was blind and saw everything, who sent… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
“This is where you first failed us. You gave us minds and told us not to think. You gave us curiosity and… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
“You were never the princess, you were never the passive beauty waiting for a prince, you were something else. You sided with… — Paula Hawkins Copy Share Image
“A fairy tale with a twisted ending, one in which the sun sets like napalm on the prince and princess as they… — Laura Kasischke 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
'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
Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life. — Jacob Burckhardt 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
“Maybe [aliens] have been in our lives a lot longer than we want to admit. People have always seen strange things—elves and… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
Not many people get that 'happily ever after' they want in life. There are disappointments every step of the way, no matter… — Abby Johnson Copy Share Image
I remember her telling me once that rabbits were the gnomes in attendance to the Fairy Queen and that the stars were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I know women are supposed to stand on their own and all. I get that. But every once in a while it… — Jennifer Salvato Doktorski Copy Share Image
'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science,… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
In the forest of primeval A school for Good and Evil Twin towers like two heads One for the pure And one… — Soman Chainani Copy Share Image
Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
I always thought Tinker bell was really cool. I'd like to be able to shrink down to a really small size and… — Georgina Reilly Copy Share Image
“It is interesting that the worst retellings of traditional fairy tales are those that heavy-handedly take the step of making a moral… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
Storybook endings, fairy tales coming true. Deep down inside we want to believe they still do. In our secretest heart, it's our… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling… — Marlena De Blasi Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are just true stories that humans have chosen not to believe in any more. Besides, this is Myths and Legends… — Stacie Simpson Copy Share Image
In the fairy tale you mentioned last night, I would probably be the villain. But it's possible the villain would treat you… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The Disney animators' rules on adult females: mothers are perfect but imperiled; stepmothers are wicked and occasionally homicidal; godmothers are sweet things… — Richard Corliss 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… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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