Leonardo DiCaprio

When I started acting, I didn't think of it as a career. I always thought Hollywood was this magical world where a fairy came down and said, 'Come live with the Munchkins; you are now one of us.' I didn't understand the concept of it as a career. I thought I would save up enough money to go to college.

American Actor

Neil Gaiman

With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as children.

British Author

Jocko Willink

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can 'be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough' are not true. They are fairy tales.

American

Selena Gomez

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.

American Actress

William Butler Yeats

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Irish Poet

Douglas Adams

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

English Writer

Kim Kardashian

Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.

American Celebrity

Jonathan Powell

A peace agreement isn't like a fairy story. You don't live happily ever after.

British Diplomat

Paris Hilton

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

Hans Christian Andersen

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

Danish Author

Fairy is often used in literature and movies to create a sense of wonder and magic, especially in fantasy.

Fantasy Genre

Fairy characters are common in children's stories, symbolizing innocence and the magic of childhood.

Childhood Innocence

Fairy depictions vary across cultures; some are benevolent, while others are tricksters or malevolent.

Cultural Variations

While some use 'fairy' harmlessly, it can be offensive when referring to someone's sexuality.

Pejorative Sense

Understanding the setting is crucial; using 'fairy' in LGBTQ+ contexts requires sensitivity.

Context Sensitivity

Language evolves, and the use of 'fairy' as a slur is becoming less acceptable.

Shift in Usage

 of a child being called an AIDS victim by a bully who didn't know that it was his father who gave it to my mother, and that's a double entendre. I'm so experienced that when you went to the Fell School and all the rich little fairy boys decided to sponsor a child in it, that was me, but kicked me out when I was caught

Lemon Andersen performs...

 Because I finished making this toothbrush helmet three years ago and after I finished making it, I went into my living room and I put up a camera, and I filmed a seven-second clip of it working. And by now, this is a pretty standard modern-day fairy tale of girl posting on the internet,

Why you should make...

 He won't call himself an atheist because it's, in principle, impossible to prove a negative, but "agnostic" on its own might suggest that God's existence was therefore on equal terms of likelihood as his non-existence. So, my friend is strictly agnostic about the tooth fairy,

Militant atheism PIPE...

 which he insisted were just as interesting as the shapes of pots or spearheads. To find the shape, he graphed the main character’s fortune from the beginning to the end of a story. The zany curves he generated revealed common types of fairy tales and myths

Why should you read Kurt...

 who follow people around rubbing fairy juice on their projects and stuff. I'm not, probably, going to bring you all along with me on this. But the question that I kind of want to pose is -- you know, why not? Why not think about it this way?

Your elusive creative...

 When I was nine years old, my mom asked me what I would want my house to look like, and I drew this fairy mushroom. And then she actually built it. I don't think I realized this was so unusual at the time, and maybe I still haven't,

Magical houses, made of...

 of years ago there were many more types of lima than there are found today including a monster that was almost the size of a donkey which since it presumably had a long fairy tale must have been a really strange beast

Sir David Attenborough...

 is wearing thank you're not god ball you're not going to the ball for the longest time i kind of had this fantasy that i'd escaped to that like a fairy godmother would come and you know turn me into a girl and make

Growing Up Transgender...

 icy footholds are irrelevant of course to birds that fly storm petrols and fairy prions can simply rest on the unremitting southern winds

Penguins Huddle To Keep...

 is no fairy you should know that life is real life is real life is real

Fairy

A small imaginary creature with magic powers, often represented in stories as human in form but with tiny size, wings and a joyful nature.