Top 1200 Fairy Stories Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn’t.

I had to grow up fast because we know it's not all fairy tales out there; it's full of rubbish.

Step to this and get shanked up I knocked out so many teeth the tooth fairy went bankrupt

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

Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.

Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories aren't often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading fast, weakening resistance, wreaking havoc.

I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.

My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.

It was quite risky to open the book with one of my quieter stories; I'm kind of trying, I think, to lure readers into a false sense of security and then assault them with a couple really loud, really strange stories.

Australian Aboriginees say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life - are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting prey in the bush.

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.

That larger story in 'Salvage the Bones' is just about survival, and I think that, in the end, there are things about this novel and about these characters' experiences that make their stories universal stories.

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

Maybe more than a teller, I am a story listener. I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind. All of my films are a collection of small stories that have been told to me.

Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories arent often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading fast, weakening resistance, wreaking havoc.

Girlfriend, if you're waiting for a fairy godmother to show up with a dress and a ride, you're not going to make it to the party.

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these

These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat.

I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.

Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.

I like to make people happy, and with fairy tales, I can say anything I want to, but in an agreeable way.

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

I want to do journalism on journalists. I want to do the stories on stories that aren't being told.

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

My goal is to tell good stories. And to try as best I can to do something new with acting. To learn from the past and to be a relevant artist. To make stories that are interesting and contemporary and to tell some kind of emotional truth.

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.

Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.

The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!

Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life.

Once you step onto the fairy path, it's almost like there's no way off. You have to keep going.

I think the reason the stories are briskly paced, when they are, is that I like story. I like stories where things happen and there are surprises and reversals, in addition to vivid characters and a memorable voice. So those are the kinds of stories I try to write. And it turns out that's pretty much the only kind of writing that works for TV. It's a medium that just devours story, demands surprises and reversals. So my sensibility is suited to TV storytelling, at least as we think of it today.

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!

It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take us on a journey. All I do is tell those stories without scripts and without actors.

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

I'm not the greatest reader. I feel like I have a bit of dyslexia or something, and that's probably why I became a filmmaker. I have the need to communicate, the need to tell stories; and the need to understand stories led me to movies.

With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark.

I think the Christ-myth stories make great stories, whether it's 'The Matrix' or 'Braveheart,' they all are tapping into some kind of deep myth in our DNA, and by myth I don't necessarily mean false.

I don't need any more stories. I have enough stories. I need a life.

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.

I dont look for good-news stories or bad-news stories.

Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me a story.” That’s how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything.

I certainly have been writing stories that are hard science fiction, that are very reminiscent of 'Golden Age tales' from the '40s and '50s. I've also written stories that are very high fantasy that are the direct opposite of that style.

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

I only like naturalistic stories. I love short, fantastic stories that cast a spell over the reader, that transport you instantly to another place with another set of rules, somewhere imagined by someone else.

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

I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.

The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good.

We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them.

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

They just take on great stories and they tell great stories. That's their only objective, at least that's been my experience, so as a result we were encouraged to push the envelope and not hold back. I hugely respect Marvel for that position.

?What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.

There are definitely a lot of roles I didn't get based off of the way I look, but I'm not going to let that stop me. I'm going to write stories for myself or work with filmmakers who want to tell stories about real people.