Tales Quotes · Page 10

Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale.

— Lewis Carroll

“Fairy tales are even better when they're real”

— Kim Holden

I have to believe in fairy tales and I have to believe in love.

— Taylor Swift

I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

— Amanda Seyfried

Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales.

— Matt Prior

Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.

— Alexander McQueen

Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales.

— Anonymous

Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness.

— Charles Bukowski

Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

— Max Luthi

She looks like a fairy tale, but yet feels so natural (natural, natural, natural) This one's a beast, but way to wonderful…

— DJ Drama

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

— Anonymous

I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really.

— Jennifer Ellison

For so long, I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices, and other people have written…

— Anonymous

I'm a great believer in fairy tales. I think it is important to have something you can lose yourself in.

— Sophie Dahl

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

— Anonymous

An unforgettable tale of love, lust, faith, betrayal, and redemption. A powerful, mesmerizing suspense novel-a tour de force!

— Judith Kelman

And you must tell the child the legends I told you--as my mother told them to me and her mother to her.…

— Betty Smith

Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in…

— Anonymous

I've always been into having stories told to me. I was a voracious reader, my father was also a teller of tales;…

— Damon Lindelof

Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movie 'A Bronx Tale'…

— Philip Zimbardo

If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the…

— Anonymous

Everybody expects the fairy tale - you're going to be together forever with somebody. I don't really subscribe to that. I'd love…

— Jim Carrey

My intention was to grapple with the metaphysical meaning behind Scheherazade and present that meaning in its essence. Scheherazade is the symbol…

— Alonzo King

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost…

— William Shakespeare

The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw…

— Tahir Shah

This is not the way these tales end," Calliope said firmly. "This is not the way that things end when they get…

— John Barnes

There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth,…

— Steven Hall

(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch…

— William James

I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As…

— Anonymous

We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to…

— Neil Gaiman

A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.

— Gelett Burgess

A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins.

— William Shakespeare

“All worthwhile tales possess some element of violence.”

— Marisha Pessl

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.

— Frank McCourt

And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.

— Jack Kerouac

“...fairy tales, just a fancy word for lies...”

— Cecelia Ahern

A vivid tale of exploration set in a howling, deadly wilderness.

— T. J. Stiles

“Our selves are are rough and unrehearsed tales we tell the world.”

— William Alexander