Fairy Quotes - page 2

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half. (Michael Bergin)
Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of - heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales. View quote
Charles de Lint
In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true. View quote
Ai Weiwei
Every fairy child may keep Two strong ponies and ten sheep; All have houses, each his own, Built of brick or granite stone; They live on cherries, they run wild - I'd love to be a Fairy's child. View quote
Robert Graves
Children born of fairy stock Never need for shirt or frock, Never want for food or fire, Always get their heart's desire... View quote
Robert Graves
No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast But I remain the same, up to the last! View quote
Edmond Rostand
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. View quote
Neil Gaiman
If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow. View quote
Orson Scott Card
That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day. (Diana Wynne Jones)
In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy godmother is the busiest and most persistent. View quote
Edwin Lefèvre
Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies. View quote
Azar Nafisi
Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales. View quote
Walter Ulbricht
Burton sighed, laughed loudly, and said, "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.” Another fairy tale to give men hope. The old religions have been discredited - although some refuse to face even that fact - so new ones must be invented.”. View quote
Philip José Farmer
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. View quote
Gilbert Ryle
OK, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus. View quote
Linus Torvalds
To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place. To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things. To do these things is to make fairy tales come true. View quote
Robert Fulghum
I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white. View quote
Paris Hilton
What I have against religion is that they start you when you are so defenseless. I mean, I was three when they started pumping this bullshit into my head. I believed in Santa Claus and the Fairy Godmother, of course I believed in a virgin birth, and a guy lived in a whale, and a woman came from a rib. But then something happened that made me doubt all of it: I graduated sixth grade! View quote
Bill Maher
Now that I can see it's the queen's new clothes Now that I can hear all your poison prose Now that I can talk with my tongue unfroze I'm not so sure of Santa or the buck tooth fairy There are no words for me inside your dictionary. (Andy Partridge)
Great drama, drama that may reach the alchemical level, must have dimension and its relevance will take care of itself. Writing about AIDS rather than the cocktail set, or possibly the fairy kingdom, will not guarantee importance.... The old comment that all periods of time are at an equal distance from eternity says much, and pondering on it will lead to alchemical theatre while relevance becomes old hat. View quote
Robertson Davies
I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink. View quote
Klaus Kinski
She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I don't know what she was - anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink no looking down, or looking back I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her. View quote
Charles Dickens
We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt. View quote
Ogden Nash