Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.

Tim Holmes

It has a jazzy sound; it's a brighter, more modern fairy tale than a lot of shows we've done.

Charles Perrault

Charm is the true gift of the Fairies.

Kate Forsyth

Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

Gail Carson Levine

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

'Seconds' is grounded in the reality of this restaurant environment, and I did do plenty of research, so there's that. It takes place in a town that is like a kinder, gentler fairy tale version of reality. Then it takes off into a story that is very strange, very mental.

Erin Morgenstern

I love that very traditional fairy tale where it's not all 'happily ever after.' I like all that old school, bloody, 'Brothers Grimm' sort of stuff. So you have all those shades of gray in there.

Mollie King

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

William Collins

By fairy hands their knell is rung; / By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

Dan Hawkins

I was always fascinated by toys, and I just never outgrew it,

Patrick Moore

I was always fascinated by this place. I always thought it was mysterious.

Michelle Monaghan

I was just fascinated with how everyone else in the world lived, and I was interested in telling their story.

Joaquin Phoenix

I was fascinated that this was the same person.

Anthony Waters

I was fascinated by Leontyne Price for obvious reasons,

Neil Jackson

I think people are always going to be fascinated about the haves and have nots - about the divide between the servants and the rich families upstairs.

Michelle Monaghan

I'm still really fascinated with characters and people and telling their stories.

Joe Carnahan

I am fascinated by that notion of people are never as they seem. And that doesn't make them good or bad. It's just we don't ever really show ourselves if we don't have to.

Dan Gilroy

Has Werner Herzog ever said anything that wasn't true? What a brilliant fountain of wisdom. Everything he touches I'm just fascinated by.

David Gregory

I don't think you mess around when you talk about tales of valor.

Jane Levy

Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones.

Aesop

Every tale is not to be believed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

David Knopfler

Trust the tale, not the teller.

Chang-Rae Lee

A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now.

Gregory Peck

I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.

Gelett Burgess

A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.

Erin Morgenstern

The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.