Fairy Quotes - page 4

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)
She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind? View quote
Cornelia Funke
One of my favourite messages about The Pirate Fairy is that the story is about appreciating your own talents. View quote
Christina Hendricks
Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another. View quote
Linn Ullmann
None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy. View quote
Lana Parrilla
Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that. View quote
William Weld
The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales. View quote
Yehuda Amichai
Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman. View quote
Dawn French
It's a sword, not a fairy wand, you know. View quote
John Flanagan
Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got all those elements plus a lot more. And we know that fairy tales aren't innocent any more. (Neil Jordan)
You cannot make a social-conscious picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely. View quote
Fritz Lang
I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales. View quote
Mike Myers
And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic. View quote
Mike Myers
Breaking things is a specialty of everyone in Fairy Tail. View quote
Hiro Mashima
Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying. View quote
Sonya Hartnett
Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the kind of logic that you only really experience when you're not feeling very well, or as a child. View quote
Helen Oyeyemi
Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale. View quote
Amber Tamblyn
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. View quote
Andrew Davies
Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time. View quote
Anthony Holden
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence. (Caitlin Flanagan)
In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children. View quote
Donna Shalala
You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that. View quote
Dorothy Hamill
I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner. View quote
Elisabeth Rohm
I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came. View quote
Evelyn Keyes