Fairy Quotes - Page 38

• All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Sea, Miracle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

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• I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don't even try to tell me different.

  Dolly Parton

  Easter, Believe, Trying

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• You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Cake, Would Be, Four

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• What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations aren't real, with falling stars and pirates. But what you do relate to is the emotions that the characters feel.

  Charlie Cox

  Stars, Real, Fall

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the kind of logic that you only really experience when youre not feeling very well, or as a child.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Children, Feelings, Logic

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• I'm fairy godmothering a girl who sounds like something you put up in the rain.

  Terry Pratchett

  Girl, Rain, Sound

  "Witches Abroad". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1991.

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• I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Thinking, Fairy Stories, People

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• I was a captive and a slave. I loved Dora Spenlow to distraction! She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I dont know what she was--anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted.

  David Copperfield

  Saws, Slave, Distraction

  David Copperfield “The Works of Charles Dickens”

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• You know, the usual story. Once upon a time I was playing my harp by a spring when a fairy appeared out of nowhere, handed me a Beretta Model 92, and told me to shoot the white rabbit over there for target practice.

  Haruki Murakami

  Spring, Practice, White

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.99, Random House

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• It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale, and he has held it captive ever since.

  Jack Zipes

  Once Upon A Time, Fairy Tale, Certain

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• Where is truth, forsooth, and who knoweth it? Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? Does Venus squint? Has she got a splay-foot, red hair, and a crooked back? Anoint my eyes, good Fairy Puck, so that I may ever consider the Beloved Object a paragon! Above all, keep on anointing my mistress's dainty peepers with the very strongest ointment, so that my noddle may ever appear lovely to her, and that she may continue to crown my honest ears with fresh roses!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Beautiful, Eye, Hair

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The Virginians: Christie's Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

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• I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I like looking like I came out of a fairy tale.

  Dolly Parton

  Art, Hair, Shoes

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• I think people are interested in anything that's a little bigger than life and that's colorful and - you know, what they like? They like fairy tales for grownups.

  Stan Lee

  Thinking, People, Bigger Than Life

  "Stan Lee and Andy Scheer Find Out Who Wants to Be Superhero?". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. August 13, 2007.

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• Goldilocks
  [There] lived a family of bearstogether anthropomorphically in a little cottage as a nuclear family. They were very sorry about this, of course, since the nuclear family has traditionally served to enslave womyn, instill a self-righteous moralism in its members, and imprint rigid notions of heterosexualist roles onto the next generation. [They named] their offspring the non-gender-specific "Baby.

  James Finn Garner

  Baby, Sorry, Self

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• I think it needs to be with a heart-based wisdom and this heart-based wisdom needs to go hand in hand with science and with social activism and love for our planet and love for our whole human family that spans the whole globe and this may sound very high and mighty or airy-fairy, but it's going to have to go to that or else we're just all going to destroy each other.

  Rainn Wilson

  Heart, Thinking, Hands

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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• I wake each day and try to see what I might do that is of some value and joy. It's a strange life. I don't know how long it'll go on. I don't look past tomorrow. Anything beyond tomorrow seems like hearsay. Or fairy tales.

  Kent Haruf

  Past, Long, Joy

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• I also dress up as a sexy fairy.

  Ashton Irwin

  Sexy, Dresses

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• The public wanted a fairy princess to come and touch them and everything would turn to gold. Little did they realise that the individual is crucifying herself inside because she didn't think she was good enough.

  Princess Diana

  Princess, Thinking, Gold

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• In the deep shadow of the porch
  A slender bind-weed springs,
  And climbs, like airy acrobat,
  The trellises, and swings
  And dances in the golden sun
  In fairy loops and rings.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Weed, Spring, Swings

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• Science Fiction: fairy tales for nerds.

  Richard Bayan

  Nerd, Fiction, Fairy Tale

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• This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery!

  J. G. Holland

  Sleep, Islands, Discovery

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• Custom is, nevertheless, the greatest enchantress, and in a home one of the most benevolent of fairies. A wife was young, and becomes old; it is custom which hinders the husband from perceiving the change.

  Timothy Shay Arthur

  Husband, Home, Wife

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• In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the sea is often fanned only by the land and sea breezes, and is like a smooth bed, on which these islands seem to sleep in bliss,--islands in which the spice and perfume gardens of the world are embowered, and where the bird of paradise has its home, and the golden pheasant, and a hundred others of brilliant plumage, whose flight is among thickets so luxuriant, and scenery so picturesque, that European strangers find there the fairy land of their youthful dreams.

  Frederick Marryat

  Dream, Lying, Home

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• the way with Ireland is that no sooner do you get away from her than the golden mists begin to close about her, and she lies, an Island of the Blest, something enchanted in our dreams. When you come back you may think you are disillusioned, but you know well that the fairy mists will begin to gather about her once more.

  Katharine Tynan

  Dream, Lying, Thinking

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• Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am elected.

  Carolyn Warner

  Women, Angel, Years

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