Tale Quotes

724 Tale quotes by 523 unique authors

Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear… — Gaston Bachelard
Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard… — Charles Lamb
By turns sad and uplifting, Life in the Valley of Death tells the amazing tale of Alan Rabinowitz's courageous and spirited efforts to protect Burma's… — Unknown Author
A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or… — William Cowper
History is not a nightmare from which. I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in. — Unknown Author
That's the old ecological tale that explains humans' inability to fully appreciate global warming. To wit: if you drop a frog in a pan of… — Clive Thompson
It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for. — Kim Kardashian
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in… — Harold Brodkey
Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale… — Ai Weiwei
M. J. Putney's writing has always been magical; now that she has turned her hand to the telling of a fantasy tale, it sparkles on… — Elizabeth Haydon
Jennifer Fulwiler's story of finding God when you aren't looking for Him is a universal tale which will touch many hearts. With warmth and unflinching… — Raymond Arroyo
Victoria Roberts spins an exciting Highland tale of intrigue, betrayal, and love with a braw Highland hero and strong English heroine any reader will love. — Unknown Author
I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the 'Tale of Two Cities' by providing real opportunity to all New… — Bill de Blasio
A heartwarming tale of Christmas past that's chock full of all the wit and hilarity we admire in America's favorite humorist--Mark Twain. Carlo DeVito brings… — Unknown Author
Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people caught in a… — Eric Van Lustbader
My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes a direct entrance… — Max Beckmann
The delight we experience when we allow ourselves to respond to a fairy tale, the enchantment we feel, comes not from the psychological meaning of… — Bruno Bettelheim
For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement. — Ira Berlin
Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything changes. — Trina Schart Hyman
Magical, yes, but THE SNOW CHILD is also satisfyingly realistic in its depiction of 1920s homestead-era Alaska and the people who settled there, including an… — Andromeda Romano-Lax
Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in which the artist's… — Terrence Rafferty
Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume… — Sei Shonagon
Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former-the… — Joseph Campbell
Richard Barager has written THE novel of the Sixties - a passion-filled, pitch-perfect, roller coaster of a tale about the decade that divides us all. — David Horowitz
The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only… — Nelson Mandela

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