Best 182 quotes in «fairy quotes» category

I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.

If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.

If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.

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.

I have to believe in fairy tales and I have to believe in love.

In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.

It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for.

I just gravitate to those more testosterone-filled sort of parts than me playing something a bit more fairy-like.

I'm a fairy. I'd come and hear, "How was your day, honey?" And I'd be like, "I was a fairy. I don't know.

It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Make a fairy tale and go and live in it.

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.

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.

Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!

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

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

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.

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

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

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

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

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

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 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] 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 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 public has become my fairy godmother.

There are fairies at the bottom of our garden.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.