Mr. Robinson was a polished sort of person. He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
My mother always seemed to me like a fairy princess: a radiant being possessed of limitless riches and power. She shone for… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom?… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
“It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
I am quite spiritual. I believed in the fairies when I was a child. I still do sort of believe in the… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night, You orphan heirs of fixed destiny, Attend your office… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“I will love you forever,” I murmured, and he stroked the hair off of my forehead. I will hold you to that.”… — Amy Lane Copy Share Image
The theoretical fruits of deliberate oversimplification through idealization are not to be denied... Reality in all its messy particularity is too complicated… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
One of the major dangers of being alone in February is the tendency to dwell on past relationships. Whether you're daydreaming about… — Amy Morin Copy Share Image
My phone buzzes. It’s from Karou: a list of conversation openers that I won’t be needing. —a) Hi. I’m Zuzana. I’m actually… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are about trouble, about getting into and out of it, and trouble seems to be a necessary stage on the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
In some aspects of alternative medicine we are fighting an almost medieval belief in magic but debunking such beliefs is like telling… — John Diamond Copy Share Image
“There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests expressly for those in love,—in that eternal hedge-school of lovers, which… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Can we all dissappear? Can I just dissappear? Can I just live in a magical fairy-tail? If I was in a fairy-tail,Would… — Jasmine Copy Share Image
With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Step-parents, those fairy tale villains, Have been given a bad name. They're easy targets. When the family goes awry How easy to… — Eileen Granfors Copy Share Image
If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fair-tale creatures, which suddenly… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there's only grey - no bad guys, no good guys. You could be… — Arnold Arre Copy Share Image
Nor elves, nor fays, nor magic charm, Have pow'r, or will, to work us harm; For those who dare the truth to… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“Aren’t you in a hurry?” Tinker Bell whispered. He ignored her and shook the fairy off. As much as Conall loved his… — Vivienne Savage Copy Share Image
Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The girls who come into my library adore the prettiness of fairies, theminiature-ness. But they are also nature lovers and lovers of… — Laura Amy Schlitz Copy Share Image
Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of -- heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“Not all fairytales have happy endings, my dear...Not all witches burn in ovens, not every princess wakes up, and sometimes the trail… — Eleanor Keane Copy Share Image
I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes.… — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Where'er ye sojourn, and whatever names Ye are or shall be called; fairies, or sylphs, Nymphs of the wood or mountain, flood… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
I swore I would never get involved in my dad's life. But then he started blowing it. So I had to get… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reason that stepmothers are often the bad guy in fairy tales is because people died in childbirth, all the time, so… — Chris Weitz Copy Share Image
