Tales famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Edinburgh is an experience A city of enormous gifts Whose streets sing of history Whose cobbles tell tales.
-- Alan Bold -
Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s.
-- Alfonso Cuaron -
Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.
-- Alice Hoffman -
Many forgotten things live still in children's tales.
-- Alison Croggon -
The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself,
-- Augustus -
Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business
-- Barbara Corcoran -
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
-- Beverly Cleary -
Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret
-- Brian Selznick -
My tale doesn't end there, for the end has yet to be written.
-- Brom -
Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
-- Buzz Bissinger -
A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now.
-- Chang-Rae Lee -
There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
-- Charles de Lint -
Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.
-- Charles Haughey -
Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.
-- Cory Doctorow -
The square is your friend. Behind every missed lay-up is a tale of the square neglected.
-- Digger Phelps -
You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul
-- Erin Morgenstern -
Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies.
-- Ernie J Zelinski -
Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.
-- Frank McCourt -
A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.
-- Gelett Burgess -
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
-- George Santayana -
As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.
-- Greg van Eekhout -
I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.
-- Gregory Peck -
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
-- H. P. Lovecraft -
I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.
-- Harold Pinter -
Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.
-- Homer -
It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.
-- Homer -
The wordy tale, once told, were hard to tell again.
-- Homer -
Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.
-- Horace -
Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.
-- Jack Vance -
It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale, and he has held it captive ever since.
-- Jack Zipes -
Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?
-- Jacqueline Carey -
For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.
-- James Elroy Flecker -
The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.
-- Jane Yolen -
My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.
-- Joan Chen -
One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.
-- John Avlon -
Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?
-- John Ford -
And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
-- John Milton -
UNMARKED is both gorgeous and hideous. A frightening and disturbing tale spun with great beauty. Absolutely riveting.
-- Jonathan Maberry -
All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.
-- Karen Lord -
Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.
-- Lauren Miller -
Whether histories have a happy ending or not depends on when the chronicler ends the tale.
-- Linda Gordon -
Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.
-- Lord Byron -
He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.
-- Marie de France -
For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.
-- Marina Tsvetaeva -
All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back and forth behind our days, but those tales grow too and shake us just as fierce.
-- Mark Lawrence -
Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless?
-- Mark Slouka -
Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se.
-- Max Landis -
The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.
-- Megan McCafferty -
Remember all fairy tales end at some point.
-- Melissa de la Cruz -
I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me
-- Natalia Kills -
Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.
-- Neil Jordan -
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.
-- Polybius -
What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale.
-- Rebecca Wells -
There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan -
Tales From Topographic Oceans is like a woman's padded bra,
-- Rick Wakeman -
The ache of empty arms was an old tale to you.
-- Sara Teasdale -
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.
-- Savielly Tartakower -
Most of the auditions I went on, I passed up the projects because I just wasn't interested. When I read A Knight's Tale, that was that. I knew I wanted to do this movie.
-- Shannyn Sossamon -
The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting.
-- Stephanie Zacharek -
A key and a strangler - this is all a simple tale requires.
-- Steve Aylett -
At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power
-- Susan Wiggs -
Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.
-- Thomas Haynes Bayly -
A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
-- Thomas More -
A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.
-- V. S. Pritchett -
To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.
-- W. H. Auden -
Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.
-- William Cowper -
Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.
-- William Irwin Thompson -
Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales.
-- Matt Prior -
I'm sure you can even find ménage à trois in medieval tales.
-- Louis Garrel
