Fair Tales Quotes

#1. The time has come to recognize that food, how we produce it, process it, package it, sell it, cook it and eat it, is as important as any other issue.

Jose Andres

#2. It is the duty of every father ... to write fairy tales for his children.

Oscar Wilde

#3. My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages, not least of which, for me, was his love of singing, which gave music a central place in our lives.

James Black

#4. The pushy showbiz kid thing was always the performance, not the person. I'm very solitary. I don't like socialising.

Bonnie Langford

#5. I remember the stars that night. They were like salt against the sky, like someone spilled the shaker against very dark cloth. That mattered to me, their accidental beauty.

Kathleen Glasgow

#6. The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.

Emmanuel Jal

#7. That's not fair! You can't talk back to the Tales! They are all we have!

John C. Wright

#8. I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen.
[From a column dated November 17, 1928]

Dorothy Parker

#9. My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug 'Vanity Fair.' You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.

Abigail Spencer

#10. And then you come along with your perfect skin, your freckled shoulders, your glorious laugh, and you lay my entire life to waste.

Laura Buzo

#11. There is no such thing as Just a cat.

Robert A. Heinlein

#12. Kami'd always retold her fairy tales to make the fair maidens braver and more self-sufficient, but she had never had any real objection to the handsome prince.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#13. I'm a pretty light and light-spirited person; I'm not a depressed guy.

Joel Kinnaman

#14. So get accomplished what you want to get accomplished in your life. And in the intervals, do what you can to help other people.

Sean Hayes

#15. Everything is already moving so very fast, but you need a great deal more speed than this to escape the earth's gravitational pull. Seven miles per second. More fuel, please.

Alexander Chee

#16. I think, for a long time, people thought I was a figment of Phil Spector's imagination because they knew The Crystals, they knew The Ronettes, they knew Bob B. Sox and the Blue Jeans, but had never had met Darlene Love.

Darlene Love