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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. -- Hans Christian Andersen
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers. -- Hans Christian Andersen
If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future. -- Danielle Steel
The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer. -- Chris Farley
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. -- Alexandre Dumas
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. -- Neil Gaiman
Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me. -- Pamela Anderson
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. -- Marie Curie
Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. -- William Butler Yeats
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible. -- Washington Irving
I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl. -- Amy Adams
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. -- Neil Gaiman
Fairy-tales are nice. -- Syd Barrett
Fairy tales are more than true ... -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fashion advice from the Tooth Fairy, that's great. -- John Cena
Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Breaking things is a specialty of everyone in Fairy Tail -- Hiro Mashima
Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do. -- Janette Rallison
Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies. -- Ernie J Zelinski
Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her? -- Allison Pearson
God and heaven lasted about four years longer than the Tooth Fairy -- Stephen King
In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy. -- Robert Breault
Fairy dust is very useful. I use it to turn oatmeal into cake. -- David Shannon
Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret -- Brian Selznick
Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated! -- Kate DiCamillo
Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life. -- William Irwin Thompson
Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry. -- Max Luthi
Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in. -- Kate Forsyth
Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen. -- Jane Yolen
Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another. -- Linn Ullmann
Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore. -- John Milton
Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams. -- Glen Duncan
Fairy tales have a hidden power, and their appeal never ends. They're the best way to get messages across. -- Michel Ocelot
One of my favourite messages about 'The Pirate Fairy' is that the story is about appreciating your own talents. -- Christina Hendricks
Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. Thereâ??s no such place. -- Christopher Moore
One of my favourite messages about The Pirate Fairy is that the story is about appreciating your own talents. -- Christina Hendricks
The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core. -- Cornelia Funke
Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad. -- Joe Wright
Believing in the Tooth Fairy is easier than trying to figure out how else the money gets under your pillow. -- Cynthia Lewis
Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them. -- Sergei Lukyanenko
Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun. -- Carlton Mellick III
I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do. -- Mary Russell Mitford
OK, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus. -- Linus Torvalds
[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don't even try to tell me different. -- Dolly Parton
Fairy tales make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water. -- G.K. Chesterton
Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well. -- Roald Dahl
Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally free. -- Michel Ocelot
My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly, my friends... -- Freddie Mercury
Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been "a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor. -- Jack Zipes
You may scoff at the Tooth Fairy if you like. But the Tooth Fairy's approach has gotten more politicians elected than any economist's analysis. -- Thomas Sowell
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress. -- John Milton
One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes pecked out by crows. -- Mark Gatiss
Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive. -- Marina Warner
I made fun of myself before everybody else could, so I always got the comic crowns: Freshman Fink, Sophomore Fairy, Junior Birdman. I got all three of them! -- Sigourney Weaver
In a few years, the date-tree had grown as tall as a woman, and out of it came a Fairy, who said to Zezolla, "What do you wish for? -- Giambattista Basile
I remember her telling me once that rabbits were the gnomes in attendance to the Fairy Queen and that the stars were God's daisy chain. Perfect rot, of course. -- P. G. Wodehouse
The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice. So let all readers of books take warning! -- Hope Mirrlees
I've gotten to hang out with Elmo, I'm the Fairy Shoeperson on 'Sesame Street'. So hopefully our kids will get to see and hear me as much as they're able. -- Neil Patrick Harris
If you have fairy blood, even in the tiniest degree, you must live close to Fairy Land, and eat a little fairy food, or else you will always be hungry. -- Robert Moss
Fairy tales were important to me. Aren't they for any kid? My sister says I spent a good five years of my youth convinced I would grow up to be a princess. -- Susannah Grant
Fairy tales have rules. You are a princess or you aren't. You are pure at heart or you aren't. If you are pure at heart, or lucky, you might catch a break. -- Richard Siken
The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world. -- Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
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As she sustained wound after wound...the fairy should have fallen, but instead, she danced. This was Titania, the Fairy Queen. -- Hiro Mashima Fairy Tail
To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality. -- Nelly Sachs
I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white. -- Paris Hilton
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. -- C. S. Lewis
If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side. -- Juan Antonio Bayona
Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK. -- Kim Kardashian
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all. -- Audrey Hepburn
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. -- Beverly Cleary
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame! -- William Butler Yeats
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. -- Francis Ford Coppola
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy. -- Richard Dawkins
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. -- Kate DiCamillo
Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre. -- Julia Roberts
I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. -- Stephen Hawking
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. -- Ralph Ellison
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? -- John Lennon
I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based. -- Erin Morgenstern
It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was science or a fairy tale. Electricity and elves were both infinitely mysterious and equally possible - elves probably more so. -- Charles de Lint
I never thought I'd have children; I never thought I'd be in love, I never thought I'd meet the right person. Having come from a broken home - you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don't look for them. -- Angelina Jolie
I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long for something resembling a happily ever after. I am supposed to be above such flights of fantasy, but I am not. I am enamored of fairy tales. -- Roxane Gay
The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't. -- Alice Hoffman
When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book. -- Kate Bernheimer
I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She's sort of become my fairy godmother. -- Ariana Grande
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As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity. -- Yehuda Berg
Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood. -- Olga Kurylenko
I want to tell women that you need to love yourself and make yourself a priority. It's only when you are happy yourself, can you make everyone else around you happy. I am still a dreamer and still believe in fairy tales, but there is only that much one should give another person. You need to keep something for yourself. -- Bipasha Basu
Sure, I love fairy tales. -- Maynard James Keenan
Have you been sniffing fairy farts? -- Kim Harrison
Science Fiction: fairy tales for nerds. -- Richard Bayan
You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred! -- Charlotte Bronte
Idle man, chases after fairy tales... -- Rumi
I loved fairy tales growing up. -- Lily James
Is life a fantasy or fairy tales? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest. -- Thomas Gray
Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales -- Jostein Gaarder
The public has become my fairy godmother. -- Eartha Kitt
Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups. -- Duane Gish
All great novels are great fairy tales. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Is life a fantasy or fairy tales~? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders. -- Savielly Tartakower
Why can't love be a fairy tale? -- Amy Davis
We have been poisoned by fairy tales. -- Anais Nin
Evolution is a fairy tale for adults -- Paul Lemoine
Let the little fairy in you fly! -- Rufus Wainwright
Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME! -- Adam Gidwitz
I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons. -- Junot Diaz
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience. -- George Santayana
Even nightingales can't be fed on fairy tales. -- Ivan Turgenev
Mademoiselle is a fairy," he said, whispering mysteriously. -- Charlotte Bronte
...fairy tales, just a fancy word for lies... -- Cecelia Ahern
Remember all fairy tales end at some point. -- Melissa de la Cruz
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