Tales Quotes - Page 17

• Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. It’s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows the same rules, you know. . . It’s just that there are more of them. Everyone has chapters and cliffhangers. Everyone has their journey to make. Some go far and wide and come back empty-handed; some don’t go anywhere and their journey makes them richest of all. Some tales have a moral and some don’t make any sense. Some will make you laugh, others make you cry. The world is a library, young Poison, and you’ll never get to read the same book twice.

  Chris Wooding

  Real, Book, Journey

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• At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We've made this deal that we tell you a tale and a pack of lies, but there will be a truth in it. You may enjoy it, or it will disturb you.

  Pete Postlethwaite

  Lying, The End Of The Day, Acting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Latin, People, Interesting

  "Suzanne Farrell: Ballerina Extraordinaire". Interview, www.achievement.org.

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• Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you.

  Bryan Brown

  Shells, Matter, Far Away

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• Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Sharks, Dollars, Billions

  "Shark Tales: How I Turned $1,000 Into a Billion Dollar Business". Book by Barbara Corcoran and Bruce Littlefield, February 9, 2011.

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• My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.

  David Alan Grier

  Growing Up, Grandmother, America

  "David Alan Grier's 'Sporting Life' On Broadway". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. May 22, 2012.

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• It won't happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill's lunch. Breakups seldom do. It will unfold slowly, one little tell-tale symptom after another like some awful, hellish flower.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sad, Breakup, Flower

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• The past history of human belief is a cautionary tale. We have killed thousands of our fellow human beings because we believed they had signed a contract with the devil, and had become witches. We still kill more than a thousand people each year for witchcraft. In my view, there is only one hope for humankind to emerge from what Carl Sagan called "the demon-haunted world" of our past. That hope is science.

  Michael Crichton

  Science, Past, Years

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• People seem always actually to know, with a degree of pain that has required the comfort of fairy tales, that when you are dressed in any particular way at all, you are revealed rather than hidden.

  Anne Hollander

  Pain, People, Degrees

  Anne Hollander (1993). “Seeing Through Clothes”, p.444, Univ of California Press

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• In 56 A.D. [the apostle] Paul wrote that over 500 people had seen the risen Jesus and that most of them were still alive (1 Corinthians 15:6ff.). It passes the bounds of credibility that the early Christians could have manufactured such a tale and then preached it among those who might easily have refuted it simply by producing the body of Jesus.

  John Warwick Montgomery

  Christian, Jesus, People

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• When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.

  Paul Henderson

  Easter, West, Fairy Tale

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw even a seasoned traveller into fits of apoplexy. At a desert encampment on Namibia's Skeleton Coast, a hard-bitten adventurer had downed a peg of local fire-water then told me the tale. Farakka was a ghost train, he said, haunted by ghouls, Thuggees, and thieves. Only a passenger with a death wish would go anywhere near it.

  Tahir Shah

  Fire, Ghouls, Skeletons

  Tahir Shah (2013). “Sorcerer's Apprentice paperback”, p.39, Lulu.com

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• He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

  Samuel Johnson

  Names, World, Moral

  'The Vanity of Human Wishes' (1749) l. 219 (on Charles XII of Sweden)

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• O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything.

  William Wordsworth

  Mind, Silent, Stores

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth (2015). “Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode”, p.364, e-artnow

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• Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.

  Amber Tamblyn

  Girl, Miracle, Action

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• In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.

  Kit Williams

  Book, Character, Keys

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• Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

  Walter Ulbricht

  Fall, Heaven, Fairy Tale

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• Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.

  Jack Vance

  Wild Imagination, Imagination, Wonderful

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• It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.

  Charles Dickens

  Lonely, Nature, Night

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.731, Booklassic

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• Then you know that Sam was the true hero of the tale,' Sayna said. 'That he faced far greater and more terrible foes than he ever should have had to face, and did so with courage. That he went alone into a black and terrible land, stormed a dark fortress, and resisted the most terrible temptation of his world for the sake of the friend he loved. That in the end, it was his actions and his actions alone that made it possible for light to overcome darkness.

  Jim Butcher

  Love, Hero, Dark

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• Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.

  L. Frank Baum

  Love, Heart, Childhood

  L. Frank Baum (2015). “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”, p.4, Xist Publishing

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• A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the people that tell them. Still, you can't listen unmoved to tales of misery and murder.

  John Dos Passos

  Mirrors, People, Hatred

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• Just as Hanukkah candles are lighted one by one from a single flame, so the tale of the miracle is passed from one man to another, from one house to another, and to the whole House of Israel throughout the generations.

  Judah Leon Magnes

  Men, Israel, Flames

  "Always Look on the Bright Side: Celebrating Each Day to the Fullest". Book by Allen Klein, p. 93, 2013.

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• We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls.

  Gregory Maguire

  Soul, Plot, Lapses

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• It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the moon, some famous inventors, a dog and a rabbit.

  Kit Williams

  Dog, Moon, Rabbits

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