Top 1200 Fairy Tale Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
One of my favourite messages about The Pirate Fairy is that the story is about appreciating your own talents.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
The square is your friend. Behind every missed lay-up is a tale of the square neglected.
Looking back at it now, any objective account of my life is bound to read like a cross between 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and a travel brochure.
Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.
Some fairy tales end with the girl marrying the prince... some start there.
You have a natural tendency to want an emotionally satisfying tale - and to make investments based on that - despite times when the actual data may be telling you something different.
American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.
I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, who captured a lot of that very beautifully.
Why do we like being Irish? Partly because
It gives us a hold on the sentimental English
As members of a world that never was,
Baptized with fairy water
All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.
So there are different examples of fairy tales, and sometimes I believe in them and sometimes I don't.
I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.
I went to the library as soon as I could walk. So the training came from reading all kinds of people, from fairy tales and later on to - I don't know why - Schweitz's "Life of Christ."
I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
History is not a nightmare from which. I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he's somebody whom I've been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read 'The Tell-Tale Heart' at age four.
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother.
What I've found about 'Cinderella' is that what it provokes in an audience is really extraordinary. It appears to be a deceptively simple tale, but I've heard nothing but people drawing all different things out of it.
Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.
There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.
People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
In the end what will prevail is your passion not your tale, for love is the Holy Grail.
When I was a child, I wanted to be... a fairy. I still do, really, except that now I've now graduated to wanting to be a pixie.
God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!
In terms of a character, I would love to play a fairy. I think that would be really fun.
If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare,
One cordial in this melancholy vale,
'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair
In other's arms breathe out the tender tale
It's like the drag fairy coming and saying 'What would you like to do?' Um, yeah karate.
'The Hatfields and McCoys' is a classic tale of American history. These are names that are widely recognized, yet few people know the real story that made them famous.
The time comes when our hearts sink utterly;
When we remember Deirdre and her tale,
And that her lips are dust.
Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have polished their malarkey and winnowed their wisdom for years.
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized. So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.
I live for those rare and delicious moments when the words on the page take off and I am the bystander, watching as the tale shows me what will happen next.
One of my favourite messages about 'The Pirate Fairy' is that the story is about appreciating your own talents.
I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a fairy.
You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.
The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it.
There's no dancing on the grave of the AAF. We watched them, we're going to take lessons from them. To a certain degree, it's a cautionary tale.
THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep and intricate and wondrous.
There was a movie that was made about 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And I never watched it on purpose because I didn't want to... I just didn't want to know.
The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.
We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters
There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals.
Putin's treatment of Chechnya became a cautionary tale of what would happen to rebels and terrorists - and indeed to entire groups of people - if they threatened the Russian state.
'Pride and Prejudice' is often compared to 'Cinderella,' but Jane Austen's real 'Cinderella' tale is 'Mansfield Park.'
I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.
The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.
There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.
He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.
THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world.
When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure.
Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.
Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.
The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.
In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.
Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write.
Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
