Tale Quotes

724 Tale quotes by 523 unique authors

It needs great art, learning to play with one's own life, to play on one's own life. Meditation is the art to create music from… — Rajneesh
A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams and nightmares upon… — Ron Franscell
It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery. — Charles Hard Townes
I believe in God, who can respond to prayers, to whom we can give trust and without whom life on this earth would be without… — Nevill Francis Mott
In Grimm's fairy tales, you kiss a frog and in two seconds, it becomes a prince. That is a fairy tale. In evolution, you kiss… — D. James Kennedy
Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups. — Duane Gish
'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd… — Walter Scott
Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth. — George Orwell
A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades.… — Abbott Lawrence Lowell
In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping… — Ursula K. Le Guin
In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the… — Ben Bova
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders. — Savielly Tartakower
Each one of us needs time and space for recollection, meditation and calmness.... Thanks be to God that this is so! In fact, this need… — Pope Benedict XVI
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way. — Joni Mitchell
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

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