I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me
Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.
I thought the tooth fairy was a very creepy concept as a kid. "Put your tooth under the pillow. " I was like "Why does someone want my teeth?".
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.
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.
It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.
The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humor was the real salt in them.
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.
the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.
Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!
I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.
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.
And Death spoke to them —’” “Sorry,” interjected Harry, “but Death spoke to them?” “It’s a fairy tale, Harry!” “Right, sorry. Go on.
I don't think anything is as magical as a fairy tale experience by a child.
What had set the fae world off? I`d never seen one. Now you couldn`t throw a trowel without hitting a fairy.
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.
Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.
Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales