Tale Quotes

724 quotes by 523 authors

Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live, in a spirit… — Roberto Rossellini
Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul. With a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal. Frosty the… — Unknown Author
Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement. — Welwyn Wilton Katz
Evolution is a fairy tale for adults — Paul Lemoine
An Islamic writer recalls her joy in the clothes she wore as a young girl at a wedding: They were always in beautiful bright colors:… — Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
A vivid tale of exploration set in a howling, deadly wilderness. — T. J. Stiles
In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a… — Ron Carlson
I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better time, consciousness and the dreamlike… — Francis Ford Coppola
Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is… — Colleen Atwood
The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of… — Timothy West
I don't think I've ever written anything even remotely naturalistic. The closest probably would be seen as 'Frankie and Johnny,' and that's only 'cause they… — Terrence McNally
One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism. — John Avlon
There are no footprints on the sea and no road-signs, not a single guard-stone or post, and no bends, only paths of light and dark… — Unknown Author
Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined… — David Hume
Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: Â the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous. — Frank Norris
In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining. — John Lescroart
Do you think if it was the fairy tale about a man who lived inside of a whale and it was religion that Jack built… — Bill Maher
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the… — Hunter S. Thompson
And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and… — Anne Enright
If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral,… — Ann Radcliffe

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