Tales Quotes - Page 16

• 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 what a violent universe we inhabit.

  Nigel Calder

  Men, Firsts, Cosmos

  "Violent Universe". Book by Nigel Calder (Closing words, p. 154), 1969.

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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. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.

  Frederick Leboyer

  Fairy Tale, Hell, End Of Life

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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 story. This is one she's called mother willow tree, it's beautiful

  Mike Harding

  Beautiful, Mother, Song

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• I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.

  Elisabeth Rohm

  Want, Fairy Tale, Partners

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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 invent a machine that could record my dreams, so I could watch them in the morning; or hire someone to draw the things I had in my head, because I knew I didn't have the skill to do it myself. Theater is that machine. I can make these images come to life and actually walk around inside them for a while.

  Mary Zimmerman

  Dream, Morning, Children

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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 be overcome.

  Marco Tempest

  Motivation, Inspiration, Loss

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• Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

  John Howe

  Dragons, Bridges, Fairy Tale

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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 Scotia to New Orleans. Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won't soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting.

  Keith Donohue

  New Orleans, America, Grace

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• We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

  Ransom Riggs

  Believe, Peculiar, Fairy Tale

  Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.17, Quirk Books

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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 have no star map for our future.

  Jane Yolen

  Stars, Book, Believe

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• The Dead and Those About to Die is a gripping, first-hand account of the desperate battle for Omaha Beach on D-Day by the legendary 1st Infantry Division, the Big Red One. On the 70th anniversary of that momentous event, John C. McManus’s tale of courage under fire is a vivid reminder that freedom isn’t free and that when the chips are down stalwart American soldiers will always answer the call of duty.

  Carlo D'Este

  Beach, Fire, Hands

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• 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 a glorious tale of his insanity! I have not yet clarified, psychoanalytically, this boredom during the recital of other people's dreams. Perhaps I have retained the stiffness of a rationalist. I do not follow the tale of justified incoherence docilely. I always suspect that part of the stupidities being recounted are invented.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Boredom, People

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• There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Sweet, Men

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Twelfth-night. Winter's tale. Macbeth. King John”, p.519

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• Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

  Max Luthi

  Fairytale, Fairy Tale, Realistic

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• 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 their soothing chime!

  Charles Lamb

  Sweet, Time, Home

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• 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 old, still hasten to a close.

  William Cowper

  Links, Body, Language

  'Conversation' (1782) l. 235

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• Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Writing, Character, Talking

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• When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting with Homer and up through Shakespeare and Milton, the most important themes to tackle are those of the mythopoeic domain, tales of the body and mind seen through a temperament and a cosmos divorced from current reality so what is said can be more clear.

  Janet Morris

  Writing, Reality, Thinking

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• With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

  Philip Sidney

  Children, Men, Play

  'The Defence of Poesie' (1595)

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• At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power

  Susan Wiggs

  Stories, Fairy Tale, Centre

  Susan Wiggs (2001). “The you I never knew”

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• O' beautiful for spacious skies
  But now those skies are threatening
  They're beating plowshares into swords
  For this tired old man that we elected king
  Armchair warriors often fail
  And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales
  The lawyers clean up all details
  Since daddy had to lie
  But I know a place where we can go
  And wash away this sin
  We'll sit and watch the clouds roll by
  And the tall grass wave in the wind
  Just lay your head back on the ground
  And let your hair spill all around me
  Offer up your best defence
  But this is the end
  This is the end of the innocence

  Don Henley

  Beautiful, Song, Kings

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• History is not a nightmare from which. I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.

  Peter Maneos

  Wish, Trying, Language

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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 do is, which is really what I'm the most interested in - like the questions that religion takes on. And I think that, for those of us that aren't religious, we need, or I need, art that stimulates the same kind of thinking about what it is to be a mensch, or a good man, things like that.

  Benh Zeitlin

  Religious, Art, Men

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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

  Drama, Live Life, Long

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• I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I don't think anything in all one's intellecutal life can be compared to these delights of imagination.

  George Sand

  Mother, Grief, Thinking

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