Marina Warner quote: "The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth."

I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.
MARINA WARNER

One of the achievements of our generation of feminists was to emancipate women from the division bet...
MARINA WARNER

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
MARINA WARNER

The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and...
MARINA WARNER

A society that doesn't know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not...
MARINA WARNER

The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out ...
MARINA WARNER

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the r...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

When you have heartbreak, what's important is that you don't go halfway. Go all the way down...
MARINA ABROMOVIC

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
MARINA TSVETAEVA

I had difficult mother, difficult childhood like she had. She is Sagittarius like I am. I almost die...
MARINA ABROMOVIC

When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth.
MARINA SIRTIS

Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?&...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year wit...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Of course I dream to have this perfect man who does not want to change me. And I'm so not marria...
MARINA ABROMOVIC

Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven pr...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow m...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, yo...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the de...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it&...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I want to dominate the man's world.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Unconditional love with someone you've never met is a straightforward feeling that is so overwhe...
MARINA ABROMOVIC

You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

One of my aims was to be paid as well as a plumber. Plumber was better-paid than any performance art...
MARINA ABROMOVIC

There are good artists that have children. Of course there are. They are called men.
MARINA ABROMOVIC

I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman....
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other i...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone...
MARINA TSVETAEVA

In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the e...
MARINA ABROMOVIC

In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the e...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I have the greatest respect for Aborigine people, to whom I owe everything. The time I spent with me...
MARINA ABROMOVIC

I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the livin...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memo...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic,...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I really don't like art where you need to know so much theory to understand. If the theory is re...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

It took Feyra some time to realise that she was not delirious: the citizens were wearing painted mas...
MARINA FIORATO

Who sleeps at night? No one is sleeping. 
In the cradle a child is screaming. 
An old ...
MARINA TSVETAEVA

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone...
MARINA TSVETAEVA

Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it.
MARINA TSVETAEVA

It is remarkable that a fist-gnawingly dire England performance still has the power to shock, when i...
MARINA HYDE

You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire de...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the nigh...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Sprint has essentially under-performed in that space. It does not have nearly as much market share.
MARINA AMOROSO

This is a natural extension of location services we've seen serving the business market to track wor...
MARINA AMOROSO

There's really not a great understanding right now about what appeals to parents and kids. It's a ma...
MARINA AMOROSO

The carriers are realizing to get the last customers they need to offer more than just a mass approa...
MARINA AMOROSO

These Are The Voyages...
MARINA SIRTIS

When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing fairies.
MARINA GALLAGHER

You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it...
MARINA LEWYCKA

With you, I truly am fearless, Marcus. With you, I’m not even afraid to be weak.
MARINA SIMCOE

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I want to sleep with you, fall asleep and sleep. That magnificent folk word, how deep, how true, how...
MARINA TSVETAEVA

You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fea...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

All the aggressive actions I do to myself I would never dream of doing in my own life - I am not thi...
MARINA ABROMOVIC

First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to ex...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my Star Trek charac...
MARINA SIRTIS

They should've done a two-hour, you know, like we did. Then I would've gotten double the money, that...
MARINA SIRTIS

I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm e...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I used to have a recurring dream where I was at a party in a country house, surrounded by the same p...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

The memory is like a cat scratching my heart.
MARINA OSWALD

To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Самый необитаемый из всех островов - толпа.
MARINA DYACHENKO

My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar ...
MARINA TSVETAEVA

I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and s...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with w...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Because in the end you are really alone, whatever you do.
MARINA ABRAMOVIć

The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

I wasn't a 'Star Trek' fan, yet I knew who all the characters were. that goes to show wh...
MARINA SIRTIS

Do you wanna leave soon?
No, I want enough time to be in love with everything...
And I cry...
MARINA KEEGAN

I want enough time to be in love with everything . . .
MARINA KEEGAN

What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start ove...
MARINA KEEGAN

Quinn had never stayed at a hotel that used real keys. Most had plastic keycards--like credit cards ...
MARINA COHEN

We're so young. We're so young. We're twenty-two years old. We have so much time. There's this senti...
MARINA KEEGAN

We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I wa...
MARINA KEEGAN

I was raised to believe that all I could ever be was a criminal. It made me want to be anything but ...
MARINA SIMCOE

I like to work with people. I enjoy my job. I really enjoy it.
MARINA ROMERO

We're here to help the Spanish community because sometimes our people feel more comfortable being se...
MARINA ROMERO

My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my p...
MARINA TSVETAEVA

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that...
MARINA TSVETAEVA

We rely on people coming out and being patrons to help this site continue to thrive.
MARINA TORTORELLO

It's something people don't see normally. To see people dressed up in that time period and using the...
MARINA TORTORELLO

Living conditions were good in this area.
MARINA TORTORELLO

We wanted to give people an idea of what it was like living in that time.
MARINA TORTORELLO

Apparently I'm the 'eye-candy' of TNG, which at my age I find quite a compliment.
MARINA SIRTIS

No amount of justice could bring them back or replace the emptiness I feel, but I'm glad he's off th...
MARINA DANIELS

The lives that Gertrude has touched would fill this whole hospital. She'd give you her heart from he...
MARINA DANIELS

She would call me every day on her way to work. Yesterday I was waiting for her to call and it never...
MARINA DANIELS

She would go to McDonald's and give it out to homeless people.
MARINA DANIELS

I would just like for him to go to court. I don't have any bitterness against him.
MARINA DANIELS

It's really annoying when you have (people) butting in line when everyone's waiting for an hour and ...
MARINA BARTUREN

Sometimes in the dark of night I begin to think. And I wonder if Lee started all this violence.
MARINA OSWALD

There are still some perceptions that attendees would do nothing but play while they are here. It's ...
MARINA NICOLA

We had the economy. We had the Iraqi war. We had SARS. Those things took a huge chunk out of the num...
MARINA NICOLA

It makes sense to practice moving around gracefully in it.
MARINA LITTERSCHEIDT

What I wish for him in my thoughts is that he would preserve his health, I think that's the most imp...
MARINA KHODORKOVSKY

If they allow to see him and bring him (food) only six times a year, then there is no sense to li...
MARINA KHODORKOVSKY

Redondo is always, no matter what, out to have a good time. That's what surfing is supposed to be al...
MARINA RICHARDSON

Every time there is a humanitarian catastrophe, you hear the same promise: There will be a seamless ...
MARINA OTTAWAY

You need to convince the international community that there is a looming crisis before there are pic...
MARINA OTTAWAY

What I expect to happen is that the US will be very cautious in pushing for elections as soon as pos...
MARINA OTTAWAY

Much more common and insidious in the contemporary world is a situation where central authority has ...
MARINA OTTAWAY

In Iraq, that's not what we find.
MARINA OTTAWAY

One can date the beginning of a civil war only in retrospect. But when we see deliberate attacks on ...
MARINA OTTAWAY

He's being as forceful as he can be, given the circumstances.
MARINA OTTAWAY

I saw everything in the world build up and then everything in the world fall down again.
MARINA KEEGAN

One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.
HAROLD WARNER

Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
HAROLD WARNER

The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
HAROLD WARNER

If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.
JACK WARNER

I don't want it good. I want it Tuesday.
JACK WARNER

My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But mos...
MARK WARNER

It is important for all of us to show our support for the brave men and women in the United States m...
TY WARNER

I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confide...
JOHN WARNER

To this day, people are still talking about the Coral Casino's parties of the '30s, '40s...
TY WARNER

You play the way you practice.
POP WARNER

We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there alw...
JEFF WARNER

A restaurant is a fantasy-a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of...
WARNER LEROY

About 20 per cent of the population believe themselves to have a food allergy and only about five pe...
JOHN WARNER

Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is...
JOHN WARNER

When I finished school, I took my entire life savings - $5,000 - and invested it in a business. I wa...
MARK WARNER

I chose not to go home and struggle with the New York scene. My size sort of locked me out. I was to...
JULIE WARNER

I just wish I got a quarter every time someone clicks on 'Little Women, Big Cars.' We had a ...
JULIE WARNER

I guess I'm the queen of the Web series. Yeah, right. I'm not at all. I'm on 'Leap Y...
JULIE WARNER

People who think that queer life consists of sex without intimacy are usually seeing only a tiny par...
MICHAEL WARNER

Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We'...
MARK WARNER

All major auto manufacturers have developed [hydrogen-fueled] cars, but they are extremely expensive...
BRIAN WARNER

They have a lot of great ideas about what they want to do.
BRIAN WARNER

Scientists don't work for medals, we are driven by curiosity, and the chance to do something to help...
BRIAN WARNER

I didn't wake up feeling like an icon because I didn't go to sleep.
BRIAN WARNER

Only a handful of states are looking at alternative fuels in a big way. This is being aggressive and...
BRIAN WARNER

Scientists don't work for medals, we are driven by curiosity, and the chance to do something to help...
BRIAN WARNER

Kids today are so intelligent and computer savvy, so pairing an interactive computer world with some...
TY WARNER

Americans who have travelled and who have English friends know we are not necessarily all baddies, b...
DAVID WARNER

We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there alw...
JEFF WARNER

The wrap party for the 'Lorna Doone' TV series was pretty special. We went to about four clu...
AMELIA WARNER

My early life was a bit of a mess but it was no one's fault. It was just how it was.
DAVID WARNER

Right now she is closing in on the school records for both of those events. She will break those bef...
JACK WARNER

I'm the wrong guy to ask. I'm only doing seven-step drops out there.
KURT WARNER

You don't have to maul people on every snap to be a great offensive line, ... but you do have to mes...
KURT WARNER

We haven't hit on all cylinders just yet and we want to try to get that accomplished and at least be...
KURT WARNER

The bottom line is to try to get into as much of a rhythm as we can before that first game. No matte...
KURT WARNER

I told Rickey that if he gets out quick then he'll (Porter) start pressing. Rickey, however, kept hi...
JACK WARNER

There wasn't a single good character in 'Titanic' who was English and this is typical.
DAVID WARNER

The bravery of our men and women in uniform, and their resolve, remain the world's most powerful wea...
MARK WARNER

Lasting peace and security in Iraq and Afghanistan will be achieved when we establish the conditions...
JOHN WARNER

There's the public persona of Ron, ... but there's a lot more there than what you see. He's a Renais...
PAUL WARNER

We were told by a state trooper that there is only one gas station between Montgomery and Mobile, .....
SCOTT WARNER

He's a great hitter. He's gone through a spell where things haven't dropped his way. His average is ...
CHARLIE WARNER

Confessions on a Dance Floor
WARNER BROTHERS

I think it would be hard to pick against Tate. Tradition is certainly something that will carry them...
CHARLIE WARNER

The lion's mane is used by the male lion to make him look bigger when he wants to rule the pride.
LAURA WARNER

I don't know if he can read anything. The first receiver better be open, but he can fling it.
KURT WARNER

Can we do it? The answer is yes.
BERNARD WARNER

It is a point in time to be optimistic.
BERNARD WARNER

This will help us change the environment.
BERNARD WARNER

It was critical to change the culture of this facility, and active steps were taken in August to sig...
BERNARD WARNER

I still want to get (sophomore) Leah Kincaid regionally qualified in the long jump, and I would like...
JACK WARNER

The Texas thing was a bit of a spanner in the works. We had to go to the States and when we came bac...
MARK WARNER

Most records get broken by small margins. This was a no-doubter.
JACK WARNER

We have not been given the exact figures. But all we have asked for we have gotten.
JACK WARNER

We were trailing at the three mile point. The guys picked it up in the last two miles and we were ab...
JACK WARNER

The simple fact is that no budget could have sensibly been prepared unless all the facts and figures...
JACK WARNER

The team has reached this far without government funding and the team shall reach that far the same ...
JACK WARNER

They are really believing that they can compete at the Big Ten level and be successful. Especially a...
JACK WARNER

Terry just gets Howie,
JULIE WARNER

[Warner visited former teammates before the game and said hello to Rams coach Mike Martz, who turned...
KURT WARNER

Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology.
MARK WARNER

Investing in high-quality early childhood education has extraordinary returns, not only for Virginia...
MARK WARNER

I didn't really see that many bands, I was too busy talking crap and drinking beer. I saw Mercury Re...
MARK WARNER

I not going to sign off on something that does not increase security for this state IT information,
MARK WARNER

We need to look at what is going to be the long-term future of our Guard when states need to rely on...
MARK WARNER

It's very exciting because we're here to see Ellen,
WARNER BROTHERS

Anytime there is an effort to tamper or tinker with the icons of American culture, you'll find you g...
WARNER BROTHERS

Unfortunately, ... I can't think of anyone who would benefit from commenting for a story like this. ...
WARNER BROTHERS

We are totally comfortable with where we are at this stage in the negotiations,
WARNER BROTHERS

I feel very honored to be among those chosen by my peers for this extraordinary recognition.
FRANK WARNER

The problem with that is this building has really thick walls. The signal can't reach the clocks. We...
TONY WARNER

The only parts that will be closed off are the ones that will be undergoing the changes. You may get...
TONY WARNER

Everything from the elevator down will be closed.
TONY WARNER

Altogether the money will all add up to $8 million or $9 million.
TONY WARNER

I think it is going to be sooner rather than later, so I'm very optimistic about it. Maybe not as op...
KURT WARNER

Its just an award that says you haven't pissed anyone off. I just like the fact that my players are ...
KEITH WARNER

The inspector general's report is an indictment of conditions at Chad that existed in July and Augus...
BERNARD WARNER

Chariho is very strong. It beat Westerly in the Injury Fund. So, we know Chariho is somebody that we...
CHRIS WARNER

Surfers are like fishermen. They're individualists and they aren't easy to organize politically unle...
WARNER CHABOT

Ferrets share lots of things in common with tigers. They're both nocturnal, and they mark their area...
LAURA WARNER

Hays beat Ulysses. We are going to have to get hungry to turn it around.
STEVE WARNER

It's kind of a big deal. It's the coldest its been in three years here, but its not the coldest its ...
TOM WARNER

Obviously you have to be willing to be self-disciplined and prepared to suffer,
CHRIS WARNER

The way it slid, it threw me in the dirt.
TROY WARNER

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

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Marina Warner

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

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