Best 182 quotes in «fairy quotes» category

It's a sword, not a fairy wand, you know.

It's like the drag fairy coming and saying 'What would you like to do?' Um, yeah karate.

It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had.

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.

I've gotten to hang out with Elmo, I'm the Fairy Shoeperson on 'Sesame Street'. So hopefully our kids will get to see and hear me as much as they're able.

labels can be fun! Some people are like, "As a card-carrying bear, where I also have a little bit of fairy in me..." People have fun collaging these; there's a fun people have with their identifications. The irony of them can be lost if you're just wholeheartedly anti-identitarian.

Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.

Make a fairy tale and go and live in it.

Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between

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.

Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.

Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!

I've always thought fairies are like mushrooms, you trip over them when you're not thinking about them, but they're hard to spot when you're searching for them.

Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother.

Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate.

Nor elves, nor fays, nor magic charm, Have pow'r, or will, to work us harm; For those who dare the truth to tell, Fays, elves, and fairies, wish them well.

Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.

Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.

On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.

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

The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

She had found him and was bringing back his thanks. Nor did she forget to mention that he had assured her that she was indeed the most beautiful fairy he had ever set eyes on.

[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm.

The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.

The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale.

The more you give away, the more you get back.

The myths and legends about Faerie are many and diverse, and often contradictory. Only one thing is certain - that nothing is certain. All things are possible in the land of Faerie.

The fairies in the ancient notion of fairies, they are not positive and cute and twinkly.They can be incredibly nasty or they can be incredibly benign. It's a really interesting mythology when you dig into it.

The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer.

The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't.

The public has become my fairy godmother.

the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals.

There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.

There are fairies at the bottom of our garden.

The surprise is on the far side." "You're sure?" "Positive." "It better not be another fairy," Seth said. "What's the matter with fairies?" "I've already seen about a billion of them and also they turned me into a walrus.

Vampires, werewolves, fallen angels and fairies lurk in the shadows, their intentions far from honorable.

We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those other fantasies that we can't disprove, we can say that God is very, very improbable.

We should not expect the state to appear in the guise of an extravagant good fairy at every christening, a loquacious companion at every stage of life's journey, and the unknown mourner at every funeral.

We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale.

When your daughter asks you to be a fairy for her 5th birthday party... you better be a damned fairy.

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.

You’re just jealous of me because I’m a tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian!

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

All I ever wanted was to make my parents proud. What happens when I can't be proud of them?" --Shea Evenstar

A leprechaun did not just kill off my car in a hailstorm.

A lot of the stories were highly suspicious, in her opinion. There was the one that ended when the two good children pushed the wicked witch into her own oven...Stories like this stopped people thinking properly, she was sure. She'd read that one and thought, Excuse me? No one has an oven big enough to get a whole person in, and what made the children think they could just walk around eating people's houses in any case? And why does some boy too stupid to know a cow is worth a lot more than five beans have the right to murder a giant and steal all his gold? Not to mention commit an act of ecological vandalism? And some girl who can't tell the difference between a wolf and her grandmother must either have been as dense as teak or come from an extremely ugly family.