Tale Quotes

724 quotes by 523 authors

Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it sweeps away the… — Ivan Illich
When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read… — Dermot Healy
You see if you tell yourself the same tale over and over again enough times then the tellings become separate stories and you will generally… — Kaye Gibbons
Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws. — Alice Hoffman
Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real… — Alice Hoffman
There have been brilliant satires about the tax bureaucracy before, from the Beatles song â€˜The Taxmanâ€™ to the film â€˜Harryâ€™s War,â€™ but in some ways… — John Fund
Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here.… — Frederick Leboyer
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession… — Laurence Housman
Bicycling beyond the Divide did what all great books do: it told me about me. In its tale of a journey made by two different… — Bret Lott
I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and… — Kit Williams
I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner. — Elisabeth Rohm
Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill,… — Anthony Holden
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its… — George Saintsbury
Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred… — Gary Ross
Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova… — Keith Donohue
A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go. — Gelett Burgess
Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does. — Isak Dinesen
The film drama is the opium of the peopleâ€¦down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenariosâ€¦long live life as it is! — Dziga Vertov
That's the thing about a folk tale: It is always addressing incredibly key issues about how you should live and what the right thing to… — Benh Zeitlin
At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power — Susan Wiggs

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