Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

We are all failures at least, all the best of us are.

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.

The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

I'm not young enough to know everything.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

We are all failures - at least the best of us are.

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.

Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary

The moment you doubt whether you can fly you cease for ever to be able to do it.

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?

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

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?

There are fairies at the bottom of our garden.

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!

I don't really like fairies.

By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.

I hate wasting people's time.

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

I want to spend more time with those kids. I want to dedicate my time to train those kids and teach them what it takes, what they need to do to get to this level.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.

Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.

Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same.