Fairy Quotes

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

Atheism is a fairy story for people afraid of the Light.

I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

Fairy tales are more than true.

Even miracles take a little time.

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

Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.

Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.

Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

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

Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement.

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.

The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love.

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.

Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

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

Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece.