Fairy Quotes

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

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.

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.

In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.

Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.

Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

The public has become my fairy godmother.

And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic.

The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer.

I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.

Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from.

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.

Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.

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.

I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.

I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?