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The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale.

Fairy tales are more than true.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.

I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the 'Tale of Two Cities' by providing real opportunity to all New Yorkers, no matter where they live.

Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se.

In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!

Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard work of making their marriages happy."

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.

It [the Earth] was breathtakingly beautiful, like something out of a fairy tale. There is no way to describe the joy of seeing the Earth. It is blue, and more beautiful than any other planet.

Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece.

We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.

Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale.

First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream.

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.

I think, a secret love is something none of your friends would understand. And it's like a fairy tale, but more serious.

I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life.

The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of Friends, a fairy tale and a murder mystery.

Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.

To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.

Evolution is a fairy tale for adults

Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.

You cannot make a social-consciou s picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.

Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say things like “I deserved a better life than this.

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale, and he has held it captive ever since.

Fairy-tales are nice.

The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.

Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

Story of O is a fairy tale for another world, a world where some part of me lived for a long time, a world that no longer exists except between the covers of a book.

I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

She looks like a fairy tale, but yet feels so natural (natural, natural, natural) This one's a beast, but way to wonderful to be compared to an animal

To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.

I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.

It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth.

To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them

The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement is inward, into the lands of the soul.