Fairy Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden

  Richard Dawkins

  Garden, Agnostic, Bottom

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale

  January Jones

  Mind, Needs, Want

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• Maybe it's a fairy tale, but I believe in happily ever after.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Believe, Fairy Tale, Ever After

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• Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.

  Dara O Briain

  Atheist, Mean, Gaps

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• Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we've stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.

  Emma Thompson

  Christian, Children, Understanding

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

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• I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels and the fairies.

  Alyssa Milano

  Angel, Cutting, Experiencing Everything

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

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• I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Dream, Thinking, Perfect

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• Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you’ve never been. Once you’ve visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

  Neil Gaiman

  Other Worlds, People, Fruit

  "Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming". www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2013.

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• At the end of the day, love is such a normal thing, and everyone deals with it. Just because it's a different lifestyle doesn't change the meaning of what I've been raised on, which is fairy tales.

  Selena Gomez

  Love Is, The End Of The Day, Different

  "Selena Gomez is a super sexy basketball player on the cover of Nelon" by Jenna Sally Rubenstein, www.mtv.com. January 18, 2013.

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• What I have against religion is that they start you when you are so defenseless. I mean, I was three when they started pumping this bullshit into my head. I believed in Santa Claus and the Fairy Godmother, of course I believed in a virgin birth, and a guy lived in a whale, and a woman came from a rib. But then something happened that made me doubt all of it: I graduated sixth grade!

  Bill Maher

  Mean, Whales, Bullshit

  "Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home". Documentary, Comedy, 2003.

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• Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.

  Lauren Miller

  Fairy Tale, Tales, Constellations

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• People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Children, Names, People

  Sam Lipsyte (2013). “The Fun Parts: Stories”, p.51, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.

  Julie Kagawa

  Real, Fairy Tale, Happy Endings

  Julie Kagawa (2011). “The Iron Queen”, p.41, Harlequin

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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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• We have had drought where I live in New Mexico for several years, and I began to think about rain and green plants and growing. Fairies naturally came to mind when I imagined walking in green places. They are workers for the growth principle.

  Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

  Rain, Thinking, Green Plants

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• Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe it. And whenever I hear my wife read fairy tales to my little boy, I’ll listen. I know now that dreams do come true.

  Jackie Robinson

  Girl, Dream, Stars

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• Spirit and soul is horseshit of the worst sort. Obviously there are no fairies, no Santa Clauses, no spirits. What there is, is human goals and purposes as noted by sane existentialists. But a lot of transcendentalists are utter screwballs.

  Albert Ellis

  Goal, Soul, Purpose

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