Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another. — Linn Ullmann Copy Share Image
Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life. — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy. — Lana Parrilla Copy Share Image
What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening. — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
I believe in elves and giants. I believe that fairy tales are nothing more than news reports of what once happened. — Sondra Locke Copy Share Image
Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Fairy-tales aren't just about finding handsome princes. They're about fulfilling your dreams and standing up for what you believe in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What are they supposed to do when they've been told their whole lives not to believe in fairy tales?” — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy,… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
It's the primordial characters [of the Star Wars]. It's the beautiful princess and the callow youth and the smartass that I played… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
No, the light is too intense; we do not yet have eyes that can see all the glory God has created. But… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
You must learn to know the difference between tales and the truth, my Liza, she would say. Fairy tales have a habit… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“But fairytales were, at best, dirty mirrors whose warped and pitted surfaces reflected a highly distorted view of the truth, quite different… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
Can we please focus? We are supposed to be professionals." Holly said. "Not me!" said Orion cheerily, "I'm just a Teenager with… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“Children born of fairy stock Never need for shirt or frock Never want for food or fire Always get their heart's desire… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just about every science whiz can tell you how he or she took apart the TV or the radio when they were… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“This is the fairytale of my life, the mythology of my existence, and, as I only have one story to tell, there… — James Campion Conway Copy Share Image
They hold their great balls in the open air, in what is called a fairy-ring. For weeks afterward you can see the… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When one of Lisa's baby teeth fell out here, the tooth fairy left her 50 cents. Another tooth fell out when she… — Priscilla Presley Copy Share Image
One of my favourite messages about 'The Pirate Fairy' is that the story is about appreciating your own talents. — Christina Hendricks Copy Share Image
“You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“...[G]enuine fairy tales are not stories about miracles, but rather announcements of the miraculous advent of justice.” — Siegfried Kracauer Copy Share Image
God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Is not where I live happily ever after, or who with. It's the fact that I live happily ever after. — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
The supernatural is ubiquitous in children's entertainment, from Grimm and Hans Andersen to Disney and 'Harry Potter.' — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Someone once told there's nothing wrong with fairy tales everyone ends up happily ever after in the end. — Peyton Sawyer Copy Share Image
Audience laughter, when it's deserved, acts as a sort of fairy dust that makes funny moments not just funny, but joyous. — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
“Snow and Rose didn't know that they were living in a fairy tale--people never do.” — Emily Winfield Martin Copy Share Image
“Well, that sucked. Clearly the fuck-up fairy had made an appearance.” — Suzanne Wright Copy Share Image
“Thou shalt not' is soon forgotten, but 'Once upon a time' lasts forever.” — C.J. Heck Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in. — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“I found out the hard way that fairy tales and true love don't exist” — Elizabeth Eulberg Copy Share Image
Then clear on a flute of purest gold A sweet little fairy played. And wonderful fairy tales she told and marvelous music… — Ida Rentoul Outhwaite Copy Share Image