Quotes about Fairy-tale

My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport. Votes: 2

Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie. Votes: 2

I want to have the fairy-tale life with a wife and three or four kids. It will come. Votes: 2

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering. Votes: 2

As I grew up, I read and loved many fairy-tale retellings and began to think about writing my own reimagining of 'Rapunzel.' Votes: 2

Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se. Votes: 2

Many still believe that conducting political and economic reforms at the same time is not an Asian way. But this is a fairy-tale. We broke that old stereotype by reforming our political, economic and social systems concurrently since 1990. Votes: 2

Fans love Sosa for his exuberance, for the kisses he blows to his mother, wife and four children. He is Slammin' Sammy, a fairy-tale figure rising from poverty in the Dominican Republic to the 55th floor above Chicago's Lake Shore Drive. Votes: 2

I don't feel there's a difference between the real world and the fairy-tale world. They contain psychological truths and, I guess, projections of what the culture that tells them thinks about various things: men, women, aging, dying - the most basic aspects of being human. Votes: 2

I dream of working with iconic directors such as Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson - so I'm setting my sights pretty high! My perfect role would be in a fairy-tale period piece, and I'm quite upset all the Harry Potter movies have been made as I'd love to have been in those. Votes: 2

In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A.I.G. would have been worse. And the systemic risk that a failure of A.I.G. posed was orders of magnitude greater than Lehman's collapse. Votes: 2

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders. Votes: 0

Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups. Votes: 0

Evolution is a fairy tale for adults Votes: 0

Why can't love be a fairy tale? Votes: 0

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. Votes: 0

I want to believe in the fairy tale. Votes: 0

Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale. Votes: 0

Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'. Votes: 0

Every affair is a fairy tale or a tragedy. Votes: 0

This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws. Votes: 0

This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City. Votes: 0

You are the fairy tale told by your ancestors. Votes: 0

Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction. Votes: 0

The NBA is fairy tale and real life mixed together. Votes: 0

The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians. Votes: 0

...which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince? Votes: 0

To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality. Votes: 0

It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for. Votes: 0

'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction. Votes: 0

Make a fairy tale and go and live in it. Votes: 0

The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't. Votes: 0

Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars. Votes: 0

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers. Votes: 0

Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement. Votes: 0

You want the fairy tale." "I want a chance at it. Votes: 0

To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal. Votes: 0

I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white. Votes: 0

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in. Votes: 0

Maybe it's a fairy tale, but I believe in happily ever after. Votes: 0

In fact, you-he pointed his fork at me-look like a fairy tale. Votes: 0

Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale. Votes: 0

Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale. Votes: 0

The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable. Votes: 0

My life is a fairy tale. You could not make it up. Votes: 0

Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece. Votes: 0

She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine. Votes: 0

Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between Votes: 0

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws. Votes: 0

Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century. Votes: 0

Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale. Votes: 0

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future. Votes: 0

The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale, Votes: 0

These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes. Votes: 0

She looks like a fairy tale, but yet feels so natural (natural, natural, natural) Votes: 0

Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes. Votes: 0

So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were. Votes: 0

Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to. Votes: 0

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience. Votes: 0

Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale. Votes: 0

Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK. Votes: 0

I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner. Votes: 0

At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power Votes: 0

Yule"”Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner"”of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner. Votes: 0

It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery. Votes: 0

First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream. Votes: 0

If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either. Votes: 0

No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way. Votes: 0

Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence. Votes: 0

With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark. Votes: 0

I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.' Votes: 0

Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice. Votes: 0

To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature. Votes: 0

A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. Votes: 0

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches. Votes: 0

Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life. Votes: 0

We often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true. Votes: 0

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch. Votes: 0

The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is! Votes: 0

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it. Votes: 0

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. Votes: 0

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. Votes: 0

As cynical as I can be, there's always a part of me that believes in love and the fairy tale. Votes: 0

Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over. Votes: 0

That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after. Votes: 0

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale. Votes: 0

Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning. Votes: 0

I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really. Votes: 0

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do. Votes: 0

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss. Votes: 0

Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks. Votes: 0

A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar Votes: 0

You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that. Votes: 0

I think, a secret love is something none of your friends would understand. And it's like a fairy tale, but more serious. Votes: 0

Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life. Votes: 0

Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything changes. Votes: 0

I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind. Votes: 0

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies. Votes: 0

It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything. Votes: 0

The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale. Votes: 0

As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale. Votes: 0

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these Votes: 0

Oh yeah. That's why. Like a fairy tale. I was marrying the Prince. I just happened to be in love with the pauper. Votes: 0

And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way. Votes: 0

I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale Votes: 0

She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen. Votes: 0

Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor. Votes: 0

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink. Votes: 0

He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale. Votes: 0

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art. Votes: 0

When you're late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love's-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead you don't recover from. Votes: 0

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies. Votes: 0

Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality. Votes: 0

And Death spoke to them "”'" "Sorry," interjected Harry, "but Death spoke to them?" "It's a fairy tale, Harry!" "Right, sorry. Go on. Votes: 0

Some stupid fairy tale charecter. Like a cheap plastic toy you'd get get by sending in the top of a lucky charms box plus $3.99 shipping and handling." Votes: 0

And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying. Votes: 0

Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true. Votes: 0

I don't believe in this fairy tale of staying together for ever. Ten years with somebody is enough. In ten years, you can give a lot of love. Votes: 0

The difference between a fairy tale and a sea tale? A fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time". A sea tale starts with " This ain't no $hit"! Votes: 0

Since I was a little kid, I did like fairy tale. I did dress up like Little Red Riding Hood. My mom had to make me a cape. Votes: 0

the story of my marriage, which is the great joy and astonishment of my life, is too much like a fairy tale, the German kind, unsweetened by Disney. Votes: 0

In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us. Votes: 0

All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard work of making their marriages happy." Votes: 0

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free. Votes: 0

This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome prince in the ham-and-eggs. Votes: 0

In the fairy tale you mentioned last night, I would probably be the villain. But it's possible the villain would treat you far better than the prince would have. Votes: 0

I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life. Votes: 0

I've learned that I want what I deny. I want someone who is crazy about me, who treats me like a princess. I want the picture-perfect fairy tale stuff. Votes: 0

The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage. Votes: 0

They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil. Votes: 0

The escape to an unchallenging fairy tale can be very nice and I'm all for that, but film can also challenge you to confront the realities of our world. Votes: 0

You cannot make a social-conscious picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely. Votes: 0

I'm so excited to see 'Horns' because it's so many different genres in one film. It's a sci-fi, it's a love story, it's a horror movie, it's a fairy tale. Votes: 0

The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of Friends, a fairy tale and a murder mystery. Votes: 0

The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement is inward, into the lands of the soul. Votes: 0

No fairy tale, this. This was by no stretch of the imagination a polished fantasy. This was a searing, living force, rough around the edges, unfamiliar and bittersweet.And precious. Votes: 0

It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the moon, some famous inventors, a dog and a rabbit. Votes: 0

The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures. Votes: 0

Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that’s based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it. Votes: 0

Carelessness was once something to be owned. They wore it around their necks as they joined the springtime breeze while ducking in and out of the forest believing their fairy tale. Votes: 0

I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead. Votes: 0

And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.' Well, that's harmless, isn't it?' Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies... it's just a word. Votes: 0

Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say things like "I deserved a better life than this. Votes: 0

Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you. Votes: 0

The Gods and Goddesses of myth, legend and fairy tale represent archetypes, real potencies and potentialities deep within the psyche, which, when allowed to flower permit us to be more fully human. Votes: 0

My favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz. I love the fairy tale of it. And Gone With the Wind was always one of my favorites because it's so dramatic and stunning. Votes: 0

His whole life was a sham, a fairy tale. The truth hidden behind a wall of lies, each lie another brick in the wall until he probably couldn't see the truth anymore. Votes: 0

If you are going to live in a house made of candy, don't move next door to a couple of obese kids. A lot of these fairy-tale characters are missing common sense. Votes: 0

I'm very interested in talking about children in this moment where you are going to become a teenager, and I think it's very relevant to use a fairy tale to talk about that. Votes: 0

Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the book, and it’s only the end of a chapter. Votes: 0

My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I'd like to go fairy tale all the way. Votes: 0

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it. Votes: 0

In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact! Votes: 0

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer. Votes: 0

The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale. Votes: 0

You once told me that I make you believe in the impossible. You make me believe in love, which I'd given up on. Thank you for proving to me it's not just a fairy tale. Votes: 0

I'm romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not. Votes: 0

Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale. Votes: 0

Story of O is a fairy tale for another world, a world where some part of me lived for a long time, a world that no longer exists except between the covers of a book. Votes: 0

It [the Earth] was breathtakingly beautiful, like something out of a fairy tale. There is no way to describe the joy of seeing the Earth. It is blue, and more beautiful than any other planet. Votes: 0

Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre. Votes: 0

'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre. Votes: 0