Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Coelho

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

Plutarch

When the candles are out all women are fair.

George MacDonald

Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.

George MacDonald

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

Joan Chen

My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.

Joan Crawford

Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?

Leo Tolstoy

… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.

Lauren Conrad

It just is what it is. It's not always fair.

Lewis Carroll

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

Kate Forsyth

She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.

Marilyn Hacker

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.

Oscar Wilde

It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

Margaret Atwood

Life's not fair; why should I be?

Patrick Ness

Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.

Lauren Miller

Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.

Governments meeting in Geneva today must put their hands in their pockets and pay their fair share. The public will be shocked that so many rich governments have given so little.

Ivan Turgenev

Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.

Isaiah Berlin

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

Kristen Bell

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

Kim Harrison

Have you been sniffing fairy farts?

Sasha Roiz

There seems to be a real taste for the fantastical these days. People like to get back into their imaginations. Maybe there's something a little nostalgic about 'Grimm' and the fairy tales that they grew up with. And it's a very unique approach to the procedural side of things.

There just aren't that many motivated sellers. It makes me think the overview is fairly positive.

As small as we are, a fair does matter a lot out here for us. If we lose (the fair), it's a big impact.

In order to be an economist these days, you have to participate in this fairytale that somehow we can recover and still make the banks rich. And it is a fairytale.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

It's not fair!" (Ryssa) Because life was ever about fairness. Oh, to be as naive as his sister.

Neil Jordan

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

Nat King Cole

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

Mignon McLaughlin

Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.

I suggest the anti-monopoly law be enacted as soon as possible, to fully guarantee fair market competitions by legal means.

I suggest an anti-monopoly law be enacted, to fully guarantee fair market competitions.

I just didn't think it was fair to run him a mile and one-eighth right off the bat.

I just feel a lack of planning is putting us in a fairly untenable situation.

Mark Richt

I really am sincere when I say that it's wide-open. We want to keep a completely open mind but be as fair as we can.