Fairy Quotes - Page 40

• Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Princess, Poetry

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• A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed a whale; and with the progress of science they were naturally finding this more and more difficult. A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, to invent symbolical and literary meanings for fairy tales, in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief.

  Upton Sinclair

  Jesus, Believe, School

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• We almost need another word for fairy, that's the thing. Once people get to see what fairies' real power is, then they understand.

  Brian Froud

  Real, People, Needs

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• It's like what you might call Goldilocks' dilemma in the old fairy tale. Young men see women as "less than" or "better than," but never their equals. And studies indicate that equality is the best foundation for a healthy relationship.

  Michael Kimmel

  Men, Healthy, Might

  "How hookups and hang-ups delay manhood". TODAYshow.com Interview, www.today.com. August 03, 2010.

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• The reason that stepmothers are often the bad guy in fairy tales is because people died in childbirth, all the time, so fathers remarried and there would be a struggle between the children and the new wife, in terms of who would inherit what.

  Chris Weitz

  Children, Father, Struggle

  Source: collider.com

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• I had to create a children's show, because we wanted the money - and it was, interestingly enough, the first project at the Angel Island theatre space. We did the show, an adaptation of Grimm's Fairy Tales. It was hardcore Grimm - nothing was sanitized - and it was called 'The Mary-Arrchie Kid's Show.' It was well-received, and so I applied to do it through Urban Gateways in Chicago.

  Richard Cotovsky

  Children, Kids, Angel

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I believe that my parents helped me to keep my natural psychic abilities open. I think most kids see angels or fairies, and because my parents were such open people, I kept that alive.

  Doreen Virtue

  Believe, Kids, Angel

  Interview with Lindsay McGinty, www.fourcornersmagazine.com. December 21, 2010.

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• The religions are the buildings or the institutions, the groups, but inside of that is what moves, is what's alive, is the beating heart of spirituality, and really, the heart's blood is the mystical experience. Not airy fairy vague mystical experience, but transformative, intimate experience that really touches your heart with love, and not just sex.

  Surya Das

  Sex, Moving, Heart

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Many fairy tales and ballads present us with animals who are nobler, truer, and kinder than the greedy human beings who desire to possess them. I guess I tend to read these stories as very early (and possibly unconscious) feminist texts.

  Delia Sherman

  Animal, Feminist, Desire

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden.

  Noel Fielding

  Children, Grandmother, Garden

  "The Weird World of Noel Fielding". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 2, 2016.

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• In college, I became interested in folk tales and fairy tales. Gradually I became more and more interested in the underlying meaning of it all and the possibility of the reality of real fairies.

  Brian Froud

  Real, College, Fairy Tale

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Naming a fairy is notoriously difficult, because they don't particularly like to be named. There are so many of them, and humans have always wanted to categorize them. In that way, we think we can have more control over them.

  Brian Froud

  Thinking, Way, Difficult

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I had a job as an illustrator, and I wanted to change the direction of my work. I moved to the country, and immediately I started to paint fairies and trolls.

  Brian Froud

  Country, Jobs, Troll

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Part of what I feel is that the so-called bad fairies are really only there to get you to pay some attention. They trick you up until you're lying flat on your back and you literally have another point of view. They're about loosening up being rigid. They trip you over to break the barrier between you and the world. So their so-called "badness" actually can be quite instrumental in helping you with things.

  Brian Froud

  Lying, Views, Attention

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Once you step onto the fairy path, it's almost like there's no way off. You have to keep going.

  Brian Froud

  Way, Path, Steps

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Fairies are becoming much more popular. I see fairyland as this big sea, and the tide is sometimes out.

  Brian Froud

  Sea, Tides, Becoming

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Nobody wanted to publish a book about fairies; they said people wouldn't be interested. Luckily, I discovered Lady Cottington and her pressed fairies, which revived a huge amount of interest in fairies, so I could go ahead and do the book I wanted to do.

  Brian Froud

  Book, People, Said

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  World, Fairy Tale, Tales

  "The GQ&A: Drive Director Nicolas Winding Refn". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. September 12, 2011.

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• But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves upon the bud and every spray. God shield the stock! if Heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.

  William Browne

  Death, Garden, Heaven

  William Browne, of Tavistock, “The Rose”

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• In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile again.

  Victoria Aveyard

  Smile, Girl, Princess

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• We often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true.

  Cass Sunstein

  Connections, Fairy Tale, Tales

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• I'm glad people think I'm a badass. I'm a rock and roller, and I'm an R&B and a blueswoman. I don't do fairy music, although I love Celtic music and sensitive music. There's a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Song, Badass, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've always loved fairy tales and magic - especially twisting them on their ears and poor trolls have always had such a bad rep.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Magic, Ears, Fairy Tale

  "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.

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• This is where you first failed us. You gave us minds and told us not to think. You gave us curiosity and put a booby-trapped tree right in front of us. You gave us sex and told us not to do it. You played three-card monte with our souls from day one, and when we couldn't find the queen, you sent us to Hell to be tortured for eternity. That was your great plan for humanity? All you gave us here was daisies and fairy tales and you acted like that was enough. How were we supposed to resist evil when you didn't even tell us about it?

  Richard Kadrey

  Queens, Sex, Thinking

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• Doesn't it get on my nerves when people say science doesn't know everything. Science knows it doesn't know everything otherwise it would stop. Just becuase science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy-tale appeals to you.

  Dara O Briain

  Mean, People, Nerves

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