Best Tales Proverbs
1135 Tales quotes by 765 unique authors
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But, when tales of the cosmos are told, this period of ours may always be recalled as that in which men first came to realise…
— Nigel Calder
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Bare Foot Folk and is full of really interesting songs, Ange Hardy takes folk tales and creates new folk songs that sound traditional around the…
— Mike Harding
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I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.
— Elisabeth Rohm
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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
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I've always loved fairy tales. I think they perhaps led me to theater rather than the other way around. As a child I wanted to…
— Mary Zimmerman
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The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must…
— Marco Tempest
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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
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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
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Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.
— John Howe
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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
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A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.
— Gelett Burgess
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Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.
— Isak Dinesen
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We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.
— Ransom Riggs
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The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!
— Dziga Vertov
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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
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At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power
— Susan Wiggs
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Patti Callahan Henry seamlessly combines mystery, family love, and personal journey all in one engrossing tale. From the intriguing beginning to the touching ending, The…
— Diane Chamberlain
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Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book and…
— Otto Penzler
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I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to…
— Jane Yolen
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I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active…
— Andrew Wyeth
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Story of O is a fairy tale for another world, a world where some part of me lived for a long time, a world that…
— Anne Desclos
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