“ Some say no evil thing that walks by night,In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen,Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghostThat breaks his magic chains at curfew time,No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine,Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its own soul. ”
- Francis Thompson- Copy
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“ A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore. ”
- Terry Brooks- Copy
- 1.5K
“ The fairy stitching gleams On the sides and in the seams, And it shows That Pixies were the wags Who tipped these funny tags And these toes. ”
- Frederick Locker Lampson- Copy
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“ I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
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“ I don't know what happened, but there was a major malmisorganization problem there. ”
- Murray Walker- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Fairy elves, / Whose midnight revels, by a forest side / Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, / Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon / Sits arbitress. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part. ”
- David Bowie- Copy
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“ Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no. ”
- J.R.R. Tolkien- Copy
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“ Obviously the more pucks you get to the net, the more the percentages go up. ”
- Greg Moore- Copy
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“ No. You see children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead. ”
- J. M. Barrie- Copy
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“ But, spite of all the criticising elves, Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves. ”
- Charles Churchill- Copy
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“ Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top of the dishevelled tide, And dance upon the mountains like a flame. ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
- 346
“ There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies? ”
- Richard Dawkins- Copy
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“ James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was. ”
- Will Ferrell- Copy
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“ Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself. ”
- Cyril Tourneur- Copy
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“ Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past. ”
- Real Live Preacher- Copy
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“ I tried to get into the Berkley School Of Music, Eastman, & Juliard. I didn't get into those schools. So to get a full scholarship to UNLV and they had a pretty good music program as well, it was the best thing I could get, so I helped my parents out and I went for it. ”
- Paul Taylor- Copy
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