Fairy Tale Quotes - Page 16

• The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Real, Imagination, Interesting

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• Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Dream, Hard Work, Home

  "Olga Kurylenko Talks OBLIVION, Flying the Bubbleship, How Her Bond Experience Helped Her with Action, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 13, 2013.

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• My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Smell, Giving

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• Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Zebras, Butterfly, Thinking

  Song: Little Wing

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• You say that if we hadn't just gotten married, you would want to marry Miss Arkansas. Even if she can't spell. She can sit on her hair. A lover could climb that hair like a gym rope. It's fairy-tale hair, Rapunzel hair. We saw her practicing for the pageant in the hotel ballroom with two wild pigs, her hair braided into two lassoes.

  Kelly Link

  Two, Hair, Pigs

  Kelly Link (2010). “Stranger Things Happen”, p.209, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Lying, Statistics, Sometimes

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• I loved fairy tales as a kid. I've always been drawn to fantasy. They're always exciting. There's never a dull moment. I just love the embellishments and the magical stuff. It's such fun to work with and to re-imagine your own way.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Fun, Kids, Dull

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• He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad things to you; but he had also read fairy tales, so he knew that there were kind people out there, side by side with the monsters.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, People, Monsters

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.35, Harper Collins

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• Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

  William Irwin Thompson

  History Of Life, Natural, Form

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• In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in constant chaos. Thus children's fairy tales as well as adult's legends, cosmological myths, and indeed philosophical systems are shelters built by the mind in which human beings can rest, at least temporarily, from the siege of inchoate experience and of doubt.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Children, Philosophical, Mind

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• I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.

  Alice Hoffman

  Ideas, Being A Woman, Domain

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• People tend to think of fairy tales as archetypal. They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.

  Kate Bernheimer

  Thinking, People, Sensual

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• In horror stories or in fairy tales, the fascination with the morbid is also, at least for me, a way to prepare for the unthinkable… That’s why it’s very important for me to show the artificiality of it all, because the real horrors of the world are unmatchable, and they’re too profound.  It’s much easier to absorb – to be entertained by it, but also to let it affect you psychologically – if it’s done in a fake, humorous, artificial way.

  Cindy Sherman

  Real, Humorous, Horror Stories

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• I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.

  Jennifer Stone

  Mother, Father, Eye

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• Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Chess, Tales, Blunders

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• Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

  Joni Mitchell

  Love, Real, Moon

  Song: Both Sides, Now

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• There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered and somewhere along the way the reality of life gets in the way and you're hit by the realization that you can't be all you wanted to be, you just might have to settle for a little bit less.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Love, Dream, Believe

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast But I remain the same, up to the last!

  Edmond Rostand

  Love You, Lasts, Tales

  Edmond Rostand (2015). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, p.178, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Country, Childhood, Agents

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• Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

  Neil Jordan

  Tales, Wells, Company

  Interview with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.

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• I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.

  Lana Parrilla

  Creepy, Scared, Kind

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

  Rupert Sanders

  Essence, Darkness, Grew Up

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• 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, it's a horror movie, it's a fairy tale.

  Juno Temple

  Different, Stories, Love Story

  "Juno Temple Talks HORNS, SIN CITY 2 and THE DARK KNIGHT RISES at Sundance" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 28, 2013.

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• Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se.

  Max Landis

  Dark, Pipers, Tales

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• And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Different, Wake Up, Sometimes

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