Character Quote by Diane Arbus Download Open image “These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.” — Diane Arbus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Fairy Fairy tale Lovely Photography Tales
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
I wasn't into fairytales when I was little. I was of the generation of the earlier Disney films where many of the female characters,… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
The girls who come into my library adore the prettiness of fairies, theminiature-ness. But they are also nature lovers and lovers of adventure --… — Laura Amy Schlitz Copy Share Image
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood,… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“There are assorted side characters, too: the beautiful Gardnerian maidens with their long black hair; wicked Lupine shapeshifters—half-human, half-wolf; green-scaled Snake Elves; and the… — Laurie Forest Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are full of girls who wait, who endure, who suffer. Good girls. Obedient girls. Girls who crush nettles until their hands bleed.… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Often, I'll read a script and the female character's an extension or serves some sort of purpose in terms of the male character's narrative… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This story was written many moons ago under an apple tree in an orchard in Kent, which is one of England's prettiest counties . . . I had read at least twenty of the [fairy tales] when I noticed something that had never struck me before--I suppose because I had always taken it for granted. All the princesses, apart from… — Anonymous Copy Share
I mean, it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
...I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Nudists are fond of saying that when you come right down to it everyone is alike, and, again, that when you come right down… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
They are the proof of something was there and no longer is. Like a stain. And the stillness of them is boggling. You can… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
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