Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerard Way

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

Christopher Lee

I was always fascinated by fairy stories, fantasy, you know, demons, necromancers, gods and goddesses, everything that is out of our kin and out of our everyday world. I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.

Jeanette Winterson

Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When I know your name, I can call your name, and when I call your name, you'll come to me.

Frederick Leboyer

Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.

Jennifer McMahon

Some things, I think, like fairy books and secret doors, are only meant to be found by children.

Nourishing a youth sublime/ With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.

Shana Alexander

The Sugarplum Fairy herself could have made no grander gesture.

Jeremy Bulloch

The 'Star Wars' series is a fairytale told in space,

Frank Robinson

It would have been really fairy tale if we could have pulled this thing off. They wouldn't have even touched this in Hollywood.

Andrew Bogut

There's no way we're going to lose Game 3 and come back and win this thing. There's not going to be any fairy tales. We need to get Game 3.

Gilbert Ryle

A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

If he is to last 90 minutes he must learn when to run, when to pass and when to hold the ball. It's been a fairytale two weeks for him and it is up to me to keep his feet on the ground.

Jason Statham

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

Hines Ward

It's a fairy tale come true for him.

It started off as a hobby. I was never one to do much fishing and hunting. On occasion I did. I was mostly a homebody with a fairy tale marriage. To tell you the truth I was an egghead growing up. I was a bookworm. I kept my head in books, a sort of introverted type person.

John Flanagan

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

Paulo Coelho

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

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.

Leo Tolstoy

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

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.

Lauren Miller

Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.

Ivan Turgenev

Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.

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.

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.

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.