Tale Quotes

724 quotes by 523 authors

A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and… — Mark Twain
Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then,… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor. — Albert Einstein
The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate. — Paul Di Filippo
Helen Tse tells a gripping tale of struggle, laughter, love and food that marks Sweet Mandarin as a must read book. It is not only… — Unknown Author
I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale — January Jones
Maybe it's a fairy tale, but I believe in happily ever after. — Jennifer Aniston
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 the gaps with… — Dara O Briain
It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the story was more than a single film could hold. As the saga… — George Lucas
And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them… — Mike Myers
I think a lot of times it just looks like Hollywood actors in Halloween costumes, you know? And I think what weâ€™re going to do… — Miles Teller
As one tale ends, so another begins. — Jackie Chan
The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale, — Grace Kelly
Every constellationâ€™s like its own fairy tale. — Lauren Miller
OTHERBOUND is a web of spells and counterspells, but Corinne Duyvis never loses sight of the bodies, minds and all-too-human emotions that absorb the impact… — Margo Lanagan
Breathes life into a vital but oft-neglected chapter of our history. Amy Belding Brown has turned an authentic drama of Indian captivity into a compelling,… — Unknown Author
What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just… — Gail Caldwell
You canâ€™t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didnâ€™t make the mistake that might have saved your… — Gail Caldwell
By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across--each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip--is a coffee bean that will… — Rabih Alameddine
Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that is the lesson… — Kate Elliott

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