Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Andre Breton

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.

Sonya Hartnett

Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.

Nat King Cole

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

Christopher Lee

I was always fascinated by fairy stories, fantasy, you know, demons, necromancers, gods and goddesses, everything that is out of our kin and out of our everyday world. I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.

Jeanette Winterson

Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When I know your name, I can call your name, and when I call your name, you'll come to me.

C. S. Lewis

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

Gilbert Ryle

A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

Chip Durham

I think that gives them an incentive to go out and play hard everyday and try to have a great season. That way at the end of the year, they're rewarded for it.

Martha Stewart

I think that people want to know how to do practical and everyday things like how to get the pomegranate seeds out of a pomegranate.

Elizabeth White

He was in the fourth grade and I was in the second grade. We saw each other everyday and grew up together.

Reggie Sanders

He's playing like an everyday player. He's stepping up big. We all know he could have played every day with another ballclub.

Michael Lynch

He had the normal everyday worries everyone has.

Trina

I'm a huge seafood lover; I could cook it everyday.

Wallace Stevens

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

Warren Buffett

You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.

Wiz Khalifa

Honestly, I'm just consumed by the work. Everyday, I'm trying to come up with new stuff and do new things. I don't take time off. I'm always recording and working on my brand beyond just the music.