I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.
Michael Bergin

I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.
Mike Myers

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.
Amy Tan

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.
Kit Williams

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
Beverly Cleary

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
Hedy Lamarr

I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.
Paris Hilton

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.
Carol Ann Duffy

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

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.
Danielle Steel

In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.
Francis Ford Coppola

In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.
Kit Williams

Let the little fairy in you fly!
Rufus Wainwright

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Hans Christian Andersen

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.
Kate DiCamillo

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.
Sarah Zettel

My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come.
Ravi Shankar

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
Johann G. Hamann

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
Eugene O'Neill