Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother.
I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.
This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.
Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.
Remember all fairy tales end at some point.
After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy.
Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text of Paradise Lost or James Joyce's Ulysses, and you have to adhere to that exact text.
Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.
Success for me is to feel happy - 80 percent of the time. That's been my goal in life. I think that comes from my father. He's a very optimistic, happy person. I'm not quite sure if I'll ever feel this, but I want to know how to be happy. I'm happy when I'm at work. I'm happy when I'm with my family or my dog. But there's always that feeling of, I'm not satisfied. I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.
The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made an elementary error when he chose not to dress his young National Socialists in lime-green catsuits laced with twinkling fairy lights.
Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally free.
You should treat a muse like a fairy.
People told me I can't dress like a fairy. I say, I'm in a rock band and I cand do whatever the hell I want!
A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision.
There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.
Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed shoulders, and the beams of good fortune glow perpetually upon the blessed. Fairy tales, as I said, are lived out daily. There is far more going on in the world than we ever imagine.
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.
Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait a minute. "Once upon a time" is how all the best children's stories begin, and "prostitute" is a word for adults. How can I start a book with this apparent contradiction? But since, at every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss, let's keep that beginning.
But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.