Fairy Quotes - Page 18

• A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

  Gilbert Ryle

  Science, Fairy Stories, Facts

  Concept of Mind (1949) introduction

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• It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery.

  Charles Hard Townes

  Writing, Science, Discovery

  "Nobel Prize in Physics". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. March 18, 1991.

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• In Grimm's fairy tales, you kiss a frog and in two seconds, it becomes a prince. That is a fairy tale. In evolution, you kiss a frog and in two million years, it becomes a prince.

  D. James Kennedy

  Kissing, Two, Years

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• Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.

  Duane Gish

  Fairy Tale, Evolution, Tales

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• Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists - like the painting experts hated the painter - hate God because He does exist.

  Ray Comfort

  Atheist, Hate, Philosophical

  "You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think: Answers to Questions from Angry Skeptics". Book by Ray Comfort, 2009.

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• What was the question? ...Oh. Where do I get my crazy ideas? Answer: sleep-fairy, walk-fairy, shower-fairy. Book-fairy. And in these last few years, from my wife. Now when I have questions I ask her and she tells me the answer. If you haven't already, I'd suggest you want to find your soulmate, as soon as you can. Next question?

  Richard Bach

  Soulmate, Crazy, Book

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• She looks like a fairy tale, but yet feels so natural (natural, natural, natural)
  This one's a beast, but way to wonderful to be compared to an animal

  DJ Drama

  Song, Animal, Looks

  Song: Day Dreaming, 2009

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• At Halloween, when fairy sprites
  Perform their mystic gambols,
  When ilka witch her neebour greets,
  On their nocturnal rambles;
  When elves at midnight-hour are seen,
  Near hollow caverns sportin,
  Then lads an' lasses aft convene,
  In hopes to ken their fortune,
  By freets that night.

  Janet Little

  Halloween, Kids, Night

  Janet Little, “On Halloween”

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• I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and culture without it. But insofar as theology studies the nature of the divine, it will earn the right to be taken seriously when it provides the slightest, smallest smidgen of a reason for believing in the existence of the divine. Meanwhile, we should devote as much time to studying serious theology as we devote to studying serious fairies and serious unicorns.

  Richard Dawkins

  Education, Business, Believe

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• Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Chess, Fairy Tale, Tales

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• Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

  Joni Mitchell

  Love, Real, Moon

  Song: Both Sides, Now

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• Step to this and get shanked up
  I knocked out so many teeth the tooth fairy went bankrupt

  Big L

  Hip Hop, Teeth, Steps

  Song: Let 'em Have It 'l'

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• Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.

  Bertrand Russell

  Support, Comforting, Wish

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• She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink, no looking down, or looking back. I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Gone, Saws

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.277

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• There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered and somewhere along the way the reality of life gets in the way and you're hit by the realization that you can't be all you wanted to be, you just might have to settle for a little bit less.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Love, Dream, Believe

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons, have their Tutelary and Guardian Angels.

  Thomas Browne

  Country, Believe, Angel

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.66

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• God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

  John Donne

  Angel, Stones, Straws

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons”, p.137

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• The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Angel, Men

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.327

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• Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Gold, Fairy Tale

  Albert Einstein (2002). “Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's letters to and from children”

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• You do not see fairies through the eyes, you see them through the heart and that took me a long time to learn because I was always trying to see them through my eyes.

  Brian Froud

  Heart, Eye, Always Trying

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• Once, at the dreaming dawn of history -- before the world was categorized and regulated by mortal minds, before solid boundaries formed between the mortal world and any other -- fairies roamed freely among men, and the two races knew each other well. Yet the knowing was never straightforward, and the adventures that mortals and fairies had together were fraught with uncertainty, for fairies and humans were alien to each other.

  Colin Thubron

  Dream, Adventure, Men

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• The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully understand the universe, and that perhaps no human ever will. To put it all down to some omnipotent deity is a cop-out. Factor in fairy tales of an afterlife and it becomes a comforting cop-out.

  Neal Asher

  Afterlife, Comforting, Vision

  Neal Asher (2009). “The Line of Polity”, p.261, Pan Macmillan

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• The girls who come into my library adore the prettiness of fairies, theminiature-ness. But they are also nature lovers and lovers of adventure -- the future wild women of America. I couldn't help thinking that these little girls who love fairies deserve something lively.

  Laura Amy Schlitz

  Girl, Adventure, Thinking

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• I have to believe in fairy tales and I have to believe in love.

  Taylor Swift

  Believe, Fairy Tale, Tales

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• I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a fairy.

  Natalie Portman

  Doctors, Mermaid, Vets

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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