Tales Quotes - Page 18

• Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there's only grey - no bad guys, no good guys. You could be the Cheshire cat, Snow White, a troll pr a pastry-making witch whose diet consists only of little kids, but you'll always be you.

  Arnold Arre

  Cat, Kids, Black And White

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• The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that had happened to themselves. A litany of personal humiliation, outrage, and anger turned sicklelike back to themselves as humor. They laughed then, uproariously, about the speed with which they had run, the pose they had assumed, the ruse they had invented to escape or decrease some threat to their manliness, their humanness. All but Empire State, who stood, broom in hand and drop-lipped, with the expression of a very intelligent ten-year-old.

  Toni Morrison

  Running, Intelligent, Men

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting?
  Better go drunk and begging round the taverns.
  Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this clay of yours
  Will make a cup, bowl, one day a jar.
  When once you hear the roses are in bloom,
  Then is the time, my love, to pour the wine;
  Houris and palaces and Heaven and Hell-
  These are but fairy-tales, forget them all.

  Omar Khayyam

  Atheist, Prayer, Wine

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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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• They hold their great balls in the open air, in what is called a fairy-ring. For weeks afterward you can see the ring on the grass. It is not there when they begin, but they make it by waltzing round and round. Sometimes you will find mushrooms inside the ring, and these are fairy chairs that the servants have forgotten to clear away. The chairs and the rings are the only tell-tale marks these little people leave behind them, and they would remove even these were they not so fond of dancing that they toe it till the very moment of the opening of the gates.

  James M. Barrie

  Air, Mushrooms, People

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• Then clear on a flute of purest gold A sweet little fairy played. And wonderful fairy tales she told and marvelous music made.

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

  Sweet, Gold, Littles

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Annie R. Rentoul, Grenbry Outhwaite (2016). “Fairyland”, p.30, Courier Dover Publications

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• You cannot make a social-consciou s picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.

  Fritz Lang

  Heart, Mean, Hands

  "Who The Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors". Book by Peter Bogdanovich, 1988.

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• Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.

  Robert Breault

  Overcoming, Obstacles, No Excuses

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• As in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?" The skull howled with laughter. "You just got your ass handed to you by a nursery tale?""I wouldn't say they handed me my ass," I said.Bob was nearly strangling on his laughter, and given that he had no lungs it seemed gratuitous somehow. "That's because you can't see yourself," he choked out. "Your nose is all swollen up and you've got two black eyes. You look like a raccoon. Holding a dislocated ass.

  Jim Butcher

  Laughter, Eye, Two

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.31, Penguin

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• I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.

  Gregory Peck

  Tact, Discretion

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• Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

  Don Henley

  Warrior, Fairy Tale, Failing

  Song: The End of the Innocence, Album: The End of the Innocence

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• In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Blood

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.30, Grove Press

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• Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means of drugs, beautiful women, lush gardens, and religious promises. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Religious, Giving Up

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• "What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail?

  William Wordsworth

  Prayer, Spring, Dark

  William Wordsworth (2009). “The Poems of William Wordsworth: Collected Reading Texts from the Cornell Wordsworth Series”, p.632, Humanities-Ebooks

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• Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down to mere nonentity. But let me not hear any small witticism to the further effect that its story is a tale told by a vulgarian, full of slang and blanky, signifying-nothing.

  Joseph Furphy

  Art, Player, Stories

  Joseph Furphy, Frances Devlin-Glass (1991). “The annotated Such is life: such is life : being certain extracts from the diary of Tom Collins”

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• So there are different examples of fairy tales, and sometimes I believe in them and sometimes I don't.

  Taylor Swift

  Believe, Example, Different

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• I think every beautiful tale in the world hides the truth and reveals it little by little.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Beautiful, Thinking, World

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• A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Art, Philosophy, Men

  Jean Paul Sartre (1949). “The diary of Antoine Roquentin”

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• I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve read fairy tales, you know that everything can talk,from trees to chairs to tables to brooms. So I grew up thinking that, and I turned it into stories.

  J. California Cooper

  Writing, Thinking, Tree

  FaceBook post by J. California Cooper from May 15, 2012

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• Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

  Philip Pullman

  Suspense, Stories, Love Story

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• A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins.

  William Shakespeare

  Winter, Goblin

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 2, sc. 1, l. 24

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• Some fairy tales end with the girl marrying the prince... some start there.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Girl, Fairy Tale, Ends

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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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• 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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