Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!

Sandra Cisneros

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

Kara Walker

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

Madeleine Albright

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

Brian Selznick

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Diana Wynne Jones

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

Charles Perrault

Charm is the true gift of the Fairies.

NeNe Leakes

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.

George Gregan

We're focusing enough on doing what we have to do to get the right result and send him off with the fairytale end.

Charlie Bell

When he finished last season, he came on like gangbusters once we got to know him and once he got the feel of varsity football, ... He was showing us all summer what we've got, offensively and defensively, so there's no surprise to us. Josh is just born with talent and skill, but to his credit, he works extremely hard to maximize it.

Tom Shales

Tom Snyder was born to broadcast. He loved television and it loved him back. In that, he was a member of a vanishing breed, especially as narrowcasting displaces broadcasting, 'online' replaces 'on the air,' and any Tom, Dick or Mary can be monarch of a desktop domain, uplinking themselves to satellites in space.

Titus Welliver

I think good actors are born with a kind of native gift. When you study too much with an acting teacher, that gets taken away. You lose your sense of spontaneity.

Joe Torre

We know he just lives for this type of situation. You have to be born with that need to compete.

Andrew Coates

Venus was born with the same sorts of constituents as Earth, which means there was some water in the environment. Some more probably came in from comets.

Diane Wakoski

Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.

Teresita Sy-Coson

I was just born into a business family. It is really a destiny.

Eiza Gonzalez

I'm born and raised in Mexico. I only spent eight months in the States, but definitely English is a really big part of my life, and I love it. Thank God my mom put me in American school because I'm able to be working in the States, and it opens a lot more doors being half and not being only one. It's cool because I get to turn it on and off.

Elliot Perlman

I'm a Taurus, which sounds like the name of a pickup truck. I'd prefer to be born under the sign of the rock wallaby. If you're going to interpret your life pursuant to an utterly irrational dogma, why can't it have a cute mascot? Rock wallabies really are fabulous animals, and in any remotely just world, they would have their own star sign.

Charlotte Bronte

You are human and fallible.

Markus Zusak

I am haunted by humans.

Ben Okri

I know that human beings are capable of anything.

Neil Harbisson

We need to get used to seeing humans with antennas sticking out of their heads.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God is not free from human beings but for them.

Edward Abbey

Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.

Ben Affleck

I'm human, just like anybody else.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Leroy Hood

What is unique about humans is their individuality.