Fairy Tale Quotes - Page 4

• I think people are interested in anything that's a little bigger than life and that's colorful and - you know, what they like? They like fairy tales for grownups.

  Stan Lee

  Thinking, People, Bigger Than Life

  "Stan Lee and Andy Scheer Find Out Who Wants to Be Superhero?". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. August 13, 2007.

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• And you must tell the child the legends I told you - as my mother told them to me and her mother to her. You must tell the fairy tales of the old country. You must tell of those not of the earth who live forever in the hearts of the people.

  Betty Smith

  Mother, Country, Children

  BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

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• A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Delight, Moral

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.943, Simon and Schuster

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• I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually a frog or a wizened old man on the side of the road. The hero is going down the road and meets this poor and insignificant person. The goal or lesson is for the hero to learn to respect everybody and to pay attention to the poorest person because that's where the key to his success will be.

  George Lucas

  Hero, Character, Men

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• Story of O is a fairy tale for another world, a world where some part of me lived for a long time, a world that no longer exists except between the covers of a book.

  Anne Desclos

  Book, Long, Stories

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• At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power

  Susan Wiggs

  Stories, Tales, Centre

  Susan Wiggs (2001). “The you I never knew”

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• Magical, yes, but THE SNOW CHILD is also satisfyingly realistic in its depiction of 1920s homestead-era Alaska and the people who settled there, including an older couple bound together by resilient love. Eowyn Ivey's poignant debut novel grabbed me from the very first pages and made me wish we had more genre-defying Alaska novels like this one. Inspired by a fairy tale, it nonetheless contains more depth and truth than so many books set in this land of extremes.

  Andromeda Romano-Lax

  Children, Couple, Book

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• Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there's only grey - no bad guys, no good guys. You could be the Cheshire cat, Snow White, a troll pr a pastry-making witch whose diet consists only of little kids, but you'll always be you.

  Arnold Arre

  Cat, Kids, Black And White

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• Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.

  Colleen Atwood

  Sleep, Action, Tales

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• First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Dream, Ideas, Space

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• How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting?
  Better go drunk and begging round the taverns.
  Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this clay of yours
  Will make a cup, bowl, one day a jar.
  When once you hear the roses are in bloom,
  Then is the time, my love, to pour the wine;
  Houris and palaces and Heaven and Hell-
  These are but fairy-tales, forget them all.

  Omar Khayyam

  Atheist, Prayer, Wine

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• Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Mom, Mother, Children

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

  Max Luthi

  Fairytale, Realistic, Tales

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• Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun.

  Carlton Mellick III

  Fun, Smart, Fiction

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• That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Growing Up, Real, Thinking

  "The Choice". Book by Nicholas Sparks, September 24, 2007.

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• It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and cry and cry.” She stops talking and looks out the window. “I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.

  Holly Black

  Crazy, Book, Talking

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• Vlad had found himself longing to encounter those of his own kind, to travel to the streets of Elysia-that far away world, but after a while it seemed more of a fairy tale than anything else. Like Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, only with fangs.

  Heather Brewer

  Encounters, Teeth, Elysium

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• 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

  Book, Princess, Reading

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• Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Princess, Poetry

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• A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed a whale; and with the progress of science they were naturally finding this more and more difficult. A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, to invent symbolical and literary meanings for fairy tales, in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief.

  Upton Sinclair

  Jesus, Believe, School

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• So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Real, Stories

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.226, Penguin

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• You look hot. The straight men will want you, the gay men will want beauty tips, and the women will want to scratch your eyes out. If that isn't the stuff of fairy tales, I don't know what is.

  Zoey Dean

  Eye, Gay, Men

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• Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.

  Azar Nafisi

  Reality, Limits, Deny

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.47, Random House

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• Victor Vigny: It is like the old fairy tale. The boy saves the princess; they fall in love. He invents a flying machine - along with his dashing teacher, of course. They get married and name thier firstborn after the aforementioned dashing teacher. Conor: I don't recall that fairy tale from the nursery. Victor Vigny: Trust me, It's a classic.

  Eoin Colfer

  Teacher, Falling In Love, Princess

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• Fairy-tales are nice.

  Syd Barrett

  Nice, Greatest Love, Tales

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

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