Unicorn Quotes

• Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn. Then, always be a unicorn.

  Jaime Murray

  Being Yourself, Pirate, Always Be Yourself

  "Jaime Murray’s ‘Defiance’: ‘be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn’". Interview with Heather Courtney Quinn, hollywoodjournal.com. June 27, 2013.

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• Wherever they may have come from, and wherever they may have gone,
  unicorns live inside the true believer's heart.
  Which means as long as we can dream, there will be unicorns.

  Bruce Coville

  Dream, Heart, Mean

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• Now I will believe that there are unicorns.

  William Shakespeare

  Believe, Tempest

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson”, p.58

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• The unicorns were the most recognizable magic the fairies possessed, and they sent them to those worlds where belief in the magic was in danger of falling altogether. After all there has to be some belief in magic- however small- for any world to survive.

  Terry Brooks

  Fall, Magic, World

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• We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dream, Broken Dreams, Seems

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!" Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Monsters, Alive

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Alice Through the Looking Glass: plus Free Audiobook”, p.58, Wizio Publishing

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• Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any

  Dr. Seuss

  Sleep, Doubt, Can't Sleep

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• A unicorn is just a horse with a point of view

  Ron Sexsmith

  Horse, Inspiration, Views

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• ...no place is more enchanted than where a unicorn has been born.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Enchanted, Born, Has Beens

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• Take criticism, smash it into dust. Add color and use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking through endless fields of greatness.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Greatness, Dust, Color

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• Life's not easy for unicorns, you know. We're a dying breed.

  Meg Cabot

  Dying, Easy, Knows

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2014

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• Theres something about girls and unicorns thats deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

  Ted Naifeh

  Girl, Meaningful, Childhood

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• This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affectations glow and valor is reborn, when the shadows deepen along the edge of the forest and we believe that, if we watch carefully, at any moment we may see the unicorn.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Believe, Shadow, Watches

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• Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.

  Benny Hill

  Leadership, Sports, Play

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• Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever; a happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Hero, Long, Forever

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• Everything today has been heavy and brown. Bring me a Unicorn to ride about the town.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Today, Towns, Brown

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

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• Let us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Hate, Fall

  Herman Melville (1849). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.56

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• Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear enough for them to see themselves -- for they are a little vain, knowing themselves to be the most beautiful.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Beautiful, Knowing, Littles

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.

  Eoin Colfer

  Fowl, Never Forget, Forget

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• The unicorn is a mythical beast.

  James Thurber

  Mythical Beasts, Beast

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.587, Library of America

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• A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

  William Shakespeare

  Stories, Happy Endings, Middle

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• Sorry...I got distracted listening to you and hot glued myself to my unicorn

  Mira Grant

  Sorry, Listening, Hot

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• A legend - now I am like a unicorn.

  Jean Giraud

  Legends

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• Be realistic with your expectations. I'd really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it aint going to happen.

  India Knight

  Expectations, Realistic, Happens

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• I thought unicorns were more . . . Fluffy.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fluffy

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