Fairy Tale Quotes - Page 9

• We are faced with the task of convincing a myth infatuated world that love and curiosity are sufficient and you don't have to delude yourself and frighten yourself with Iron Age fairy tales. This is a monumental task. I don't think there is an intellectual struggle more worthy of our efforts.

  Sam Harris

  Struggle, Thinking, Iron

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• Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

  Kate Atkinson

  Children, Reading, Reality

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• I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they're both amazing ways to understand human nature.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Talking, Two

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Disney is a huge presence when it comes to fairy tales because he’s made of them such brilliant artifacts in terms of movie-making. But it’s very hard to ignore what he’s done to them. I'm not interested in denigrating Disney or even commenting on him very much. I'm more interested in seeing what I can do with the stories myself.

  Philip Pullman

  Stories, Done, Brilliant

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 2012.

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

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Character, Lovely

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

  Trina Schart Hyman

  Safe, Things Change, Life Is

  Trina Schart Hyman (1989). “Self-portrait: Trina Schart Hyman”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Edward Said talks about Orientalism in very negative terms because it reflects the prejudices of the west towards the exotic east. But I was also having fun thinking of Orientalism as a genre like Cowboys and Indians is a genre – they’re not an accurate representation of the American west, they’re like a fairy tale genre.

  Craig Thompson

  Fun, Thinking, Cowboy

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• I love seeing the Oscar films and epic dramas. But I'd rather watch a romantic comedy than any other kind of movie. There's something about movies like these that make you feel so good and happy and that you want to live in that world -- to be that girl and be part of the fairy tale. I have always believed in fairy tales.

  Jennifer López

  Girl, Drama, Epic

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• I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve read fairy tales, you know that everything can talk,from trees to chairs to tables to brooms. So I grew up thinking that, and I turned it into stories.

  J. California Cooper

  Writing, Thinking, Tree

  FaceBook post by J. California Cooper from May 15, 2012

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• It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale, and he has held it captive ever since.

  Jack Zipes

  Once Upon A Time, Certain, Tales

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• Some fairy tales end with the girl marrying the prince... some start there.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Girl, Ends, Tales

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• I like to make people happy, and with fairy tales, I can say anything I want to, but in an agreeable way.

  Michel Ocelot

  People, Say Anything, Want

  Fuente: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I feel any time you enter a dream world it's like you're working out things, it's all inside your mind and you're working it out, be it Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, or the kids in Narnia, they go through this weird journey that's not real, and they're going through this journey psychologically. It's that journey of discovery, of getting onself together, that fantasy and fairy tales are so good at. And while some people still look upon them as completely unrealistic, for me they're more real than most things that are perceived as real.

  Tim Burton

  Dream, Real, Kids

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• Mi sueño era llegar a hacer películas. Formar parte de los cuentos de hadas, las historias y las novelas que tanto me gustaba leer mientras crecía.

  Irena A. Hoffman

  Dream, Growing Up, Reading

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• My inspiration is my life, what I see happening around me. It can be history and, quite often, plain traditional fairy tales. But I never adapt; I nourish myself with old stories, and then create my own tales.

  Michel Ocelot

  Inspiration, Stories, Tales

  Fuente: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.

  Jack Vance

  Book, Century, Tales

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• I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief is positively harmful. Reviewing the false claims of religion, I do not wish, as some sentimental materialists affect to wish, that they were true. I do not envy believers their faith. I am relieved to think that the whole story is a sinister fairy tale; life would be miserable if what the faithful affirmed was actually the case.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Atheist, Thinking

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.55, Basic Books

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• Éste es exactamente el mensaje que los cuentos de hadas transmiten a los niños de múltiples formas: que la lucha contra las graves dificultades de la vida es inevitable, forma parte intrínseca de la existencia humana, pero que si uno no se amilana, sino que se enfrenta con firmeza a dificultades inesperadas y a menudo injustas, domina todos los obstáculos y al final sale victorioso.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Vida, Motivación, Aliento

  Bruno Bettelheim (1976). "Los usos del encantamiento: El significado y la importancia de los cuentos de hadas", Vintage

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• Si quieres que tus hijos sean brillantes, cuéntales cuentos. Si quieres que sean más brillantes, cuéntales más cuentos.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Want, Brilliant

  Fuente: digitalseance.wordpress.com

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• El deleite que experimentamos cuando nos permitimos responder a un cuento de hadas, el encanto que sentimos, no procede del significado psicológico del cuento (aunque éste contribuya a ello), sino de sus cualidades literarias: el cuento en sí como obra de arte.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Art, Quality, Enchantment

  Bruno Bettelheim (1976). "Los usos del encantamiento: El significado y la importancia de los cuentos de hadas", Vintage

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• Mi corazón late más bien por un arte vulgar, crudo y medio, que no vive entre los adormecidos estados de ánimo de los cuentos de hadas y la poesía, sino que concede una entrada directa a la temible, banal, espléndida y medio grotesca banalidad de la vida.

  Max Beckmann

  Art, Average, Sleepy

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• William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles and Tolstoy told of tragedies and of people in trouble. Terence and Mark Twain told cosmic stories, Dickens told melodramatic ones, Plutarch told histories and Hans Christian Andersen told fairy tales. But Shakespeare told every kind of story – comedy, tragedy, history, melodrama, adventure, love stories and fairy tales – and each of them so well that they have become immortal. In all the world of storytelling he has become the greatest name.

  Marchette Chute

  Christian, War, Adventure

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• 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.

  Marc Bloch

  Lying, History, Giants

  Marc Bloch (1992). “The Historian's Craft”, p.22, Manchester University Press

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• Aunque somos conscientes de que no hay nada en el universo que sugiera algún propósito para la humanidad, una forma de encontrar un propósito es estudiar el universo con los métodos de la ciencia, sin consolarnos con cuentos de hadas sobre su futuro, o sobre el nuestro.

  Steven Weinberg

  Humanity, Atheism, Way

  Steven Weinberg (2012). “Lake Views”, p.45, Harvard University Press

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• All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed landscape whose landmarks constantly draw us toward the past. Certain shifting angles, certain receding perspectives, allow us to glimpse original conceptions of space, but this vision remains fragmentary. It must be sought in the magical locales of fairy tales and surrealist writings: castles, endless walls, little forgotten bars, mammoth caverns, casino mirrors.

  Ivan Chtcheglov

  Wall, Moving, Writing

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.5, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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