Top 1200 Fairy Stories Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

The audience just doesn't care. They are just as interested in women-centric stories as they are in stories about men.

Knockemstiff is a collection of short stories set in the holler of the same name in southern Ohio where I grew up. I tried to link the stories together through the place and some recurring characters.

There are so many stories about boys becoming heroes, learning their powers and becoming incredibly heroic. There have to be those stories for girls, too.

We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.

They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.

Short story writers simply do what human beings have always done. They write stories because they have to; because they cannot rest until they have tried as hard as they can to write the stories. They cannot rest because they are human, and all of us need to speak into the silence of mortality, to interrupt and ever so briefly stop that quiet flow, and with stories try to understand at least some of it.

Me releasing my music, if anything, is an opportunity to show the world my stories and tell the world my stories.

To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.

A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.

Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.

What we want to see is stories that are going to be honest stories about the characters that we're telling them about.

There are lots of stories in the Bible, but all the stories are telling one Big Story. The Story of how God loves his children and comes to rescue them.

I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.

The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable.

Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.

There's no more personal issue than gun violence; every one of these stories is a life lost, i'm hoping that over the long term, as I tell these stories, that it will help to open people's eyes.

The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.

I love telling stories; I always have, and I think women need to be more proactive about telling their own stories and sharing their points of view.

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

Women need to tell their stories from their experiences, and that may not mean that it would be all stories with women as protagonists.

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

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences.

I'm very interested in telling darker stories that maybe you are not used to seeing in animation. Especially because in animation you don't see those kind of stories.

I can't write a joke. I could never write. I do a lot of stories and I call them stories, but they're just comedy recitals on a given subject.

I really think the Bible is a baseline where all stories come from. All of the zillion stories in the Bible provide inspiration for everything.

The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed

'Knockemstiff' is a collection of short stories set in the holler of the same name in southern Ohio where I grew up. I tried to link the stories together through the place and some recurring characters.

At the end of the day, stories connect us, not politics. And there's so many stories out there waiting to be told. It's just a matter of who's out there listening.

Fairy dust is very useful. I use it to turn oatmeal into cake.

Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and give us a saving image to personally relate to.

I'm drawn to female stories, of which there aren't that many, and particularly to stories now about older women. The things they have to confront and override is really fascinating. That's a whole untold part of our world.

As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don't really care where it's seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven't done before.

When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.

These are the kinds of stories I'm really interested in telling: bad stories about bad people, I'm comfortable with.

The loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by.

There are some stories - not even stories, some feelings - that you can't accomplish in cinema without using celluloid.

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between

False stories used to affect me initially. But now, I've come to understand that if false stories are created, they are also forgotten in the long run.

Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas.

My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or schemed, or fought. But no crying. When my grandmother died, I didn't cry, either. Something about my grandmother's stories (without her ever having said so) taught me the uselessness of crying about anything."

Reading good books is one distraction that will help you become a better writer. And writing - that's the thing - writing is what will really make you a better writer. Write bad stories until you begin to write so-so stories, which might, if you keep at it, turn to writing good stories.

The regional tags are often pejorative and dismissive. Don't think of place-bound stories, in other words, but of stories with a strong sense of place.

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.

It is sad that some people in the media like to create stories to sell their media, without any real facts to back up their stories.

Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale.

Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.

Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

In our present universe, many things are empty stories; amongst all these meaningless stories, love is less meaningless story than others!

I wasn't elected to sugar coat things.I wasn't elected to tell stories and twist the stories around to the public.

I would like to see more female stories out there, particularly older female stories.

As cynical as I can be, there's always a part of me that believes in love and the fairy tale.

You learn a lot more from stories about getting rejected than stories about becoming happy.

With Digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.

I have an affinity for a lot of things that are kind of fairy-tale-ish and bookish.

I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer.