Marie Curie
Physicist, Chemist
"I am among those who think that science has great beauty."
Fairy Tale quotes
Fairy Tale
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"Fairy tales are more than true."
Stan Lee
Comic Book Writer, Editor
"Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups."
Simone Elkeles
Author
"But wishes are only granted in fairy tales."
Anais Nin
Writer, Diarist
"We have been poisoned by fairy tales."
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"Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale."
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"Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale."
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"Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked."
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"Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale."
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"The dead have need of fairy tales too."
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"Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience."
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"There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable."
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"Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life."
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"Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor."
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"Why can't love be a fairy tale?"
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"I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales."
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"And Death spoke to them —’” “Sorry,” interjected Harry, “but Death spoke to them?” “It’s a fairy tale, Harry!” “Right, sorry. Go on."
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"Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales."
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"When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!"
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"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."
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"If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales."
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"Idle man, chases after fairy tales."
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"Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to."
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"We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories."
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"I have to believe in fairy tales and I have to believe in love."
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