Grimms Quotes & Sayings

The other night when I walked by and saw you in the media lounge, I fantasized about throwing you up on the table
and doing you right there on top of the dessert trays."
"Sounds ... messy."
"And fun. I thought about all the interesting places I'd get to lick you clean."
She sounded as if she were holding her breath when she said, "I thought you don't eat sugar."
He laughed. "I want to eat yours," he said as he kissed the crook of her neck. "Does that shock you,
little Jane? — Rachel Gibson

If you've seen a clear & worthy vision, you get up every morning to pursue your vision even if you were knocked down the previous day... — Assegid Habtewold

I was a Nancy Drew girl. Also Grimms' fairy tales. — Sue Monk Kidd

Do all people have that? A face, a phrase, a landscape, an air bubble from the past suddenly floating up as if released by the head warden's child from a cell in the brain while the mind is at work on some totally different matter? Something of the sort also occurs just before falling asleep when what you think you are thinking is not at all what you think. Or two parallel passenger trains of thought, one overtaking the other. — Vladimir Nabokov

Everyone is calm and collected but I am telling you something - I am not calm and I am not collected. It's a sick world out there. — Clive Stafford Smith

I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew. — Jack Zipes

The elderly become invisible sooner than we would hope. — Nadia Hashimi

The road ahead may be difficult for all Australians, but we need not be divided on partisan lines. — Tony Whitlam

Sometimes we need someone to just listen. Not to try and fix anything or offer alternatives, but to just be there ... to listen. An ear that listens can be medicine to a heart that hurts. — Steve Maraboli

Well, I am glad you boys didn't try to use my saws, or we would really have a mess," Big Tim teased. — Gretchen Preston

Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal. — Jack Zipes

I'm going to look the way God intends me to look ... with a little help from Manolo Blahnik. — Jamie Lee Curtis

It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their attitude and decided to produce a shorter edition for middle-class families. This led to Wilhelm's editing and censoring many of the tales. — Jack Zipes

Ladies first"
Mina Hesitated. "Uh, age before beauty."
"Grimms never win."
"Prince before pauper."
"Oh, fine. Just don't say chivalry is dead. 'Cause you had your chance. — Chanda Hahn

We are thus conscious less of the time than we think, because we cannot be conscious of when we are not conscious. — Julian Jaynes

There is no area of life that does not have a biblical worldview attached to it. — Tony Evans

The huntsman couldn't bear to kill Snow White, of course, so presented instead the organs of a pig. According to the original Grimms' tale the Queen inspected them, was satisfied, then ate them "salted and cooked. — Gavin Francis

In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world. They have sun tans. Some of them have chauffeurs in Rolls-Royces waiting outside. They have their golf clubs ready in the car. There is no law that says you cannot play golf while being unemployed. — Allan Sherman

I read the letter once, put it aside, and read it again; I pick up a file but am really only reading your letter; I am with the typist, to whom I am supposed to dictate, and again your letter slowly slides through my fingers and I have begun to draw it out of my pocket when people ask me something and I know perfectly well I should not be thinking of your letter now, yet that thought is all that occurs to me - but after all that I am as hungry as before, as restless as before, and once again the door starts swinging merrily, as though the man with the letter were about to appear again. That is what you call the "little pleasure" your letters give me. — Franz Kafka

I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that. — Philip Pullman

The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate pace with democracy. — Thomas Paine