Tale Quotes

724 Tale quotes by 523 unique authors

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
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 constellation’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 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
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
The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they trek through eerie… — Wayne Thomas Batson
Maybe if people can't have an end to their suffering, the next thing they seek for is to know why they suffer. Suffering is a… — Matthew J. Kirby
Home is the place you return to when you have finally lost your soul. Home is the place where life is born, not the place… — Karen Maitland
Trust the tale, not the teller. — David Knopfler
I have nothing against people having work done, it is when I hear tale of girls of 16 queuing up to get bigger breasts, that… — Amanda Burton
Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering. — Layne Staley
A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or… — Chang-Rae Lee
I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right… — Orson Scott Card
There is, however, a strong empirical reason why we should cultivate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that they are known to be… — Carl Jung
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen — Pindar
To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a… — Charles Perrault
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale. — Polybius
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized . So, as… — Henry A. Kissinger
Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner. — Marianne Moore
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty,… — Leo Tolstoy

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