Fairy Quotes

I've learned that I want what I deny. I want someone who is crazy about me, who treats me like a princess. I want the picture-perfect fairy tale stuff.

Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.

As much as I'd like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don't really believe it can happen.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

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

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.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it.

Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got all those elements plus a lot more. And we know that fairy tales aren't innocent any more.

My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come.

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

I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really.

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

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.

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.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

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.

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.