Brothers Grimm Quotes

• Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right—all that falls to them is so much gain—all their geese are swans—all their cards are trumps—toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster. The world may very likely not always think of them as they think of themselves, but what care they for the world? what can it know about the matter?

  Jacob Grimm

  Moving, Fall, Good Luck

  Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm “Annotated Grimms' Fairy Tales with English Grammar Exercises: by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• The characters are great, and this is the first adventure of the brothers Grimm, so there's plenty of potential to make a franchise. We've been quite successful in the past, so anything like that, if it does pay off with hopefully the good movie that I think it will be, it pays off also down the road.

  Bob Weinstein

  Brother, Adventure, Character

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• Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.

  Alexander McQueen

  Brother, Fairy Tale, Tales

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• My writing has to excite people and depict or include their experiences. That's part of my process - to go out and interact with people. It's very much like an archival process. I understand that the Brothers Grimm would go out and get people talking so they could document folk tales that weren't being documented any other way. I try to offer a little bit of myself - some experience from my life that evokes stories in other people.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Brother, Writing, Talking

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• The Grimm brothers always said that their informants were women, which is possibly not true, women of the people. There is the constant evocation of women's voices, in the collecting and arrangement of these stories, and yet the message of so many of them is incredibly misogynist. I was very puzzled by that, and that book explores that contradiction.

  Marina Warner

  Brother, Book, Voice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its simplicity and directness, particularly in scenes of naked self-concern and brutality. Hate, spite, love, magic, all self-evident, heartbreaking, delightful. I will return to this book over and over, no doubt about it.

  Donna Jo Napoli

  Brother, Hate, Book

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• Getting the role in '300' saved me. I'd been out of work for 11 months after 'The Brothers Grimm.' Once the film came out and didn't do so well, the director Terry Gilliam blamed me for absolutely everything. It was pretty appalling, and I had started to wonder if I'd ever get another job again when I was asked to audition for '300.

  Lena Headey

  Brother, Jobs, Directors

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• Girls, I need to tell you some things about our family," Sabrina said. "Have you ever heard of the Brothers Grimm?

  Michael Buckley

  Girl, Brother, Needs

  Michael Buckley (2012). “The Sisters Grimm: Book Nine: The Council of Mirrors”, p.193, Abrams

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• Pryce, a veteran of Brazil and Baron Munchausen and a longtime Gilliam friend, bristles at the word chaos when applied to the Brothers Grimm set.] Terry knows what he wants, ... He's very demanding, but in a positive and generous way. And if you're up to it, it's very exciting. If you're not, you fall by the wayside.

  Jonathan Pryce

  Brother, Fall, Brazil

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• The Brothers Grimm came along and I was so desperate for work... Actually I've got to say that I like the movie, I won't apologize for it.

  Terry Gilliam

  Brother, Apologizing, Desperate

  YouTube Channel "Yakushima"/"Terry Gilliam in NY Museum of the Moving Image 10/2006", www.youtube.com. November 05, 2006.

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• ...I do have to wonder what sort of childhood the Grimm brothers endured. They are not a merry bunch of storytellers, what with their children roasted by witches, maidens poisoned by old crones, and whatnot.

  Libba Bray

  Brother, Children, Childhood

  Libba Bray (2009). “Rebel Angels”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker and fable-gatherer seduced by the uncanny and the unearthly. In Lilith's Cave, he once again reaches into a magical cornucopia of folklore and fantasy and spreads before us, in enchanting language, the marvels and shocks of dybbuks, ghosts, demons, spirits, and wizards.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Christian, Brother, Caves

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• Those Grimm brothers," she said with a sigh, "they'll never amount to anything." And she was right because all they ever became was writers.

  Vivian Vande Velde

  Brother, Said, Grimm

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• I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Christian, Brother, Hero

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