Fairy Quotes

I think people are interested in anything that's a little bigger than life and that's colorful and - you know, what they like? They like fairy tales for grownups.

People seem always actually to know, with a degree of pain that has required the comfort of fairy tales, that when you are dressed in any particular way at all, you are revealed rather than hidden.

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.

I can't just only be on reality TV and show everything when it's the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.

Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am elected.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.

Fairy tales have rules. You are a princess or you aren’t. You are pure at heart or you aren’t. If you are pure at heart, or lucky, you might catch a break.

If you are going to live in a house made of candy, don't move next door to a couple of obese kids. A lot of these fairy-tale characters are missing common sense.

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.

You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.

We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling about it. We were children loving our children. And that's who we are still.

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.

She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction Ive ever written.

If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.

It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life.

'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction.

From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages there is no reality.

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

I thought the tooth fairy was a very creepy concept as a kid. "Put your tooth under the pillow." I was like "Why does someone want my teeth?".

Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between

In some aspects of alternative medicine we are fighting an almost medieval belief in magic but debunking such beliefs is like telling people that the tooth fairy is sniffing glue.

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!

We haven't yet got eyes that can gaze into all the splendour that God has created, but we shall get them one day; and that will be the finest fairy tale of all, for we shall be in it ourselves.

God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

Believing in the Tooth Fairy is easier than trying to figure out how else the money gets under your pillow.

A moment after the fairy's entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in.

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.

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

Every time you say you don't believe in fairies, a fairy dies.

Sure, I love fairy tales.

I don't think anything is as magical as a fairy tale experience by a child.

Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the book, and it’s only the end of a chapter.

Two forces create eternity - a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale.

Fairy tales have a hidden power, and their appeal never ends. They're the best way to get messages across.

Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.

Idle man, chases after fairy tales.

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

If you are a guild, take care of your friends. That is all I have to say.

The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.

Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.

My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.

Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.