#fairy

Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold...The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords. In that realm a man may, perhaps, count himself fortunate to have wandered, but its very richness and strangeness tie the tongue of a traveller who would report them. And while he is there it is dangerous for him to ask too many questions, lest the gates should be shut and the keys be lost. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#magic #beauty

A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#music #nation #tragedy

Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that. ↗

— William Weld

#believed #bunny #each #easter #economic

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

#fairy #fairy tale #got #had #how

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

#book #character #divided #fairy #fairy tale

Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore. ↗

— Cameron Dokey

#retellings #sleeping-beauty #beauty

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#comforting #confronting #conservatives #fairy #fairy tales

I've learned that I want what I deny. I want someone who is crazy about me, who treats me like a princess. I want the picture-perfect fairy tale stuff. ↗

— Selena Gomez

#crazy #deny #fairy #fairy tale #i

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

— Johann Georg Hamann

#call #fairy #fairy tale #letter #nature

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

— Stephen Hawking

#afterlife #computers #dark #fairy #heaven