Top 1200 Fairy Tale Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I want to have the fairy-tale life with a wife and three or four kids. It will come.

At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power

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

'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction.

Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.

These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.

I wrote a lot of scripts that were dark and fairy tale-like, but too strange.

In fairy tales there's always one person who is made for one other, and they find each other and live happily ever after. Cal was my person. I couldn't imagine anyone more perfect. Yet what kind of sick fairy tale would it be if he was the one made exactly right for me and I wasn't right for him?

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

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.

No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.

I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.

Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him, but because--despite all the angry, anxious thoughts in his mind to which the fairy tale gives body and specific content--these stories always result in a happy outcome, which the child cannot imagine on his own.

You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.

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

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

When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale - fairy tales are brutal.

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

I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.'

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

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.

The NBA is fairy tale and real life mixed together.

Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.

Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to.

Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and courage to use it widely.

Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.

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

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

Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.

I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.

Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.

The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. Two blankly opposing morals, the artist's and the tale's. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper functions of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.

So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.

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

My family is my little village. I really do feel like my fairy tale came true.

We often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true.

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

I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.

There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.

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

Oh yeah. That's why. Like a fairy tale. I was marrying the Prince. I just happened to be in love with the pauper.

Maybe it's a fairy tale, but I believe in happily ever after.

Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.

I don't think anything is as magical as a fairy tale experience by a child.

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

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

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

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

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

Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale.

Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece.

Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes.

In Grimm's fairy tales, you kiss a frog and in two seconds, it becomes a prince. That is a fairy tale. In evolution, you kiss a frog and in two million years, it becomes a prince.

My life is a fairy tale. You could not make it up.

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

The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman, these wives, that he lures up to the castle. I just think about fairy tales as stories women told their children to warn them? To keep them safe, to make sure they married up, all the things that would have safeguarded them in the olden days.

That's what I wanted 'Pirate Jenny' to be: a queer, revolutionary fairy tale for the people that I love.

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