Quotes of: Fairy-tale Keyword

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.

Anne of Avonlea

God and heaven lasted about four years longer than the Tooth Fairy

Joyland

She is beautiful like an angel, charming like a fairy and sweet like honey.

A moment with God ; Poetry

Why bring him in my life at all when he never was meant to stay?

The Prince and The Fairy

'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot.

Robert Gottlieb

We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Richard Dawkins

Angels, fairies, gods, hell-heaven, "mediating" messiahs, demons, spirits etc. - are but your cultural-isms. Free be of these prisons.

Fakeer Ishavardas

The Blue Fairy: A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.

Pinocchio

The Blue Fairy: Prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish, and someday, you will be a real boy.

Pinocchio

The Blue Fairy: Now, remember, Pinocchio: be a good boy. And always let your conscience be your guide.

Pinocchio

The Blue Fairy: A boy who won't be good might just as well be made of wood.

Pinocchio

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 Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in no one knew where she was. It seemed almost like being shut out of the world...

The Secret Garden

A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean. If my drawing, on the other hand, is so far from being a work of art that it needs THIS IS A HORSE written under it, what can it matter that neither you nor...

The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories

Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s.

Alfonso Cuaron

The moment-when I could no longer face myself in the mirror-wasn't easily explained; nor was the oppressive misery I experienced once I finally became the person I was meant to be but then realized with terrific horror how much I still hated her.

The Choice Not Taken: a tale of shattered dreams and second chances

He disregarded everything, he gave everything to art. He tirelessly visited galleries, spent whole hours standing before the works of great masters, grasped and pursued a wondrous brush. He never finished anything without testing himself several time...

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

Beauty works perfect miracles. All inner shortcomings in a beauty, instead of causing repugnance, become somehow extraordinarily attractive; vice itself breathes comeliness in them; but if it were to disappear, then a woman would have to be twenty ti...

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

The ocean swells around us. Sometimes, we are in a bowl of water and sometimes on the top of the lip. The horizon curves. We are sitting on top of the world. In theory, anyone is on the top of their world at every moment, given that the Earth is trul...

The Cat Letters: A Tale of Longing, Adventure and True Love

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches...

Complete Tales & Poems