Tale Quotes
724 quotes by 523 authors
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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
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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
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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
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The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.
— Paul Di Filippo
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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
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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
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Maybe it's a fairy tale, but I believe in happily ever after.
— Jennifer Aniston
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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
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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
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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
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I think a lot of times it just looks like Hollywood actors in Halloween costumes, you know? And I think what we’re going to do…
— Miles Teller
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As one tale ends, so another begins.
— Jackie Chan
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The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale,
— Grace Kelly
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Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.
— Lauren Miller
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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
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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
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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
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You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake that might have saved your…
— Gail Caldwell
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Tale Quotes
523 authors contributed a total of 724 Tale Quotes, led by these top contributors: