Top 1200 Fairy Stories Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good?

If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.

I have always wanted to tell stories. Even as a classical dancer, I revel in telling stories through my dance.

Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded shirt. And all that is left is a fading name and the shape of a nose or the color of hair. The men who write the history books will tell you the stories of battles and conquests. But the women will tell you the stories of people's hearts.

I don't think we'll ever lose the desire for people to tell stories or to hear stories or to be entrapped in a beautiful story.

People need stories; they want stories. They always will.

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.

People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.

Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.

The stories in 'Parenthood' are so much the stories of our lives. And the people who have worked on the show feel very connected to these characters.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.

Everyone has stories but they don't know how to tell these stories.

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like 'The New York Times.'

History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.

I realized that there is no fairy tale.

If you're a writer you know that the stories don't come to you, you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.

The only reason we find structure in stories is because it's there naturally in human interaction, and in the way that people tell stories.

We want to make sure the stories that show up in Path are both good stories and are a big part of people's lives.

Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.

We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.

Writers, good ones, don't tell stories. Characters show stories.

Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.

We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps.

I love fairy tales.

I feel that, as a person of color, I've always been interested in the stories that are quiet and the stories that often get overlooked.

You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.

Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead

I think it's why we're able to look at with comic book stories or origin stories, why is it that we can keep retelling these stories over and over? And hopefully it's because it hits something so universal and so primal inside of us that we actually yearn for that same story over and over. But toned and different form, and updated and modernized, and I can go into the specifics.

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

I'm living a fairy tale.

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

I'm a storyteller. I'm not like any other comic. I tell detailed stories - not made-up stuff, but true stories.

You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.

In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its entirety.

Let the little fairy in you fly!

When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

Fairy-tales are nice.

In the end all we have...are stories and methods of finding and using those stories.

What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories.

There is no universal gay experience. All stories are relevant, and all stories are needed.

I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis.

Immigrant stories are good stories for everyone to know.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.

The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably... in the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn't. And yet you want to know again.

It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

My life isn't very racy or exciting so I make things up, tell stories. I like telling stories.

You've got to support male stories and healthy male relationships and things. You can't just be a woman that is only want to support female stories or a guy that's only wanting to support guy stories. It needs to all mix again.

I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.

I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied with stories where I can't be passionate about the subject, where I can't make a difference.

'Monkeys' is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. 'Folly' is a series of vignettes all put together to tell a larger story. In 'Lust and Other Stories,' there are nine stories - three, three, three; the beginnings of love, the middles, and the afters.

The Maigret stories are all very different in terms of the content and the way that the stories are told. They're not what I would call formulaic.

We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.