Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I’m sure I’ve read too many fairy tales. The prince is supposed to slay the dragon, defeat the villain, and marry the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life,… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
A cult hero? I don't think of myself as any kind of hero. I don't want to say it's a fairy tale,… — Jeremy Shockey Copy Share Image
We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“The country people, indeed, did not always clearly distinguish between the Fairies and the dead. They called them both the 'Silent People';… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
There weren’t any fairy tales in the streets around me. If there was ever a Cinderella, her glass slippers shattered under her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No, I don't think you understand just how stupid goblins are. Let me give you an example. One of the B'wa Kell… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“Why should a man be scorned, if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Part of what I feel is that the so-called bad fairies are really only there to get you to pay some attention.… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than that. They just were. Adult stories… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
You, of all people, deserve a happy ending Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter You aren't cold You've just… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Have you ever seen a child sitting on its mother’s knee listening to fairy stories? As long as the child is told… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
“Books were so simple about these things, fairy tales so straightforward! There were peasants, and then there were kings and queens. Sometimes… — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“It is adorable and healthily childlike secretly to believe in fairy tales, but the instant one articulates such viewpoints to other people,… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
If I had children, as soon as I have them, I'm teaching them everything I know. I don't want to feed you… — Burna Boy Copy Share Image
Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Did you ever hear Of the frolic fairies dear? They're a blessed little race, Peeping up in fancy's face, In the valley,… — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So… — NeNe Leakes Copy Share Image
..children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'I don't believe in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wish this is a Fairy Tail. Where's my so called ''Happy Ending''? Everythings worse until it gets better but,Its at its… — Jasmine Copy Share Image
The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
You know, the usual story. Once upon a time I was playing my harp by a spring when a fairy appeared out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My parents were working performers, so obviously I saw that there wasn't a lot of fairy tale going on there. It was… — Megan Follows Copy Share Image
Innocent parents might have thought that a musical cartoon version of a fairy tale would be a child's ideal introduction to movie… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
Sweet memory, wafted by the gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail, To view the fairy haunts… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
I beat my children daily, with a shoe, because I don't want them to grow up fairies. At 9 p.m. I promptly… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
All I'd have to do then was roll with the consequences of inviting dewinged, fanged fairies into Trent's backyard. God, they were… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
But I like to swim. At high school, I tried out for the swim team. I shaved off all my body hair,… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
“The sun was directly overhead, bright against the flower’s exterior. Warm blueish-purple silhouettes pirouetted and danced along interior walls.” — James Qualls Copy Share Image
I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
You look hot. The straight men will want you, the gay men will want beauty tips, and the women will want to… — Zoey Dean Copy Share Image
