I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
Like everybody, I too believed that couples lived happily ever after. But it only happens in books. — Amrita Singh Copy Share Image
Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up. — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
“And fairy tales have no meaning when the stars align and Fortune spins her wheel, weaving her own story for your heart.” — Juliette Cross Copy Share Image
The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Somehow the idea of Montgomery as a fairy doesn't have the same effect on me as it appears to have on you.… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“But I can't believe in fairies myself," protested Emily sorrowfully. "I wish I could." "But you are a fairy yourself” — L.M. Montgomery 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
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
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
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
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
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
The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs,… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Although reality can sometimes corrupt the fairy tale and alter our ambitions, some things remain unalterable. From the richest to the poorest,… — Michael Robotham Copy Share Image
Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“There were two things about this particular book ( The Golden Book of Fairy Tales ) that made it vital to the… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
I looked at the 1950 animated film [Cinderella], I read a couple of editions of the fairy tale that I have in… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
I realized that searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming. We all grew up on… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Aren’t all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth. Pandora’s box is a… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Victor Vigny: It is like the old fairy tale. The boy saves the princess; they fall in love. He invents a flying… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
“In that moment, she reminded me of a fairy princess. Or maybe a cracked-out Tinker Bell” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“I’m going to start by telling you a story, because anything that was ever worth knowing began with ‘once upon a time.’… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
This is a modern fairytale. No happy endings. No wind in our sails. But I can't imagine a life without. Breathless moments. — Selena Gomez Copy Share Image
Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we… — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
I added to my mental list of the odd things I'd done that day. I'd entertained the police, sunbathed, visited at a… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sunny noon; Not the little sporting fairy, All beneath the simmer moon;… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales,… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I thought the tooth fairy was a very creepy concept as a kid. "Put your tooth under the pillow." I was like… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
“A fairy tale...on the other hand, demands of the reader total surrender; so long as he is in its world, there must… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
Kelly Link is inimitable. Her stories are like nothing else, dark yet sparkling with her unique brand of fairy dust. This is… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've gotten to hang out with Elmo, I'm the Fairy Shoeperson on 'Sesame Street'. So hopefully our kids will get to see… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image