Tales Quotes - Page 21

• Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. A company that stands still will soon be forgotten. Trying to provoke positive change is a principle we've embedded across the Virgin family for more than four decades.

  Richard Branson

  Change, Trying, Stories

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• Anyone who loved Tuesdays with Morrie should delight in reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom has populated his larger-than-life tale with memorable characters and filled it with the abundant warmth and wisdom that we've come to expect from this gifted storyteller.

  John Burnham Schwartz

  Reading, Character, Memorable

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• Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.

  Alexander McQueen

  Brother, Fairy Tale, Grimm

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• My father once admonished me to master the laws that govern fine writing until I could weave my words into worlds. If ever I accomplish that feat, I will sign my name to the tale.

  Brandon Mull

  Father, Writing, Law

  Brandon Mull (2013). “Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm always like, 'I can't believe I sound like my mother.' I remember running out of the house telling, 'Put your shoes on or you're going to get sick!' That's an old wives' tale, but it's like some weird mind control that I would be like that.

  Eileen Davidson

  Mother, Running, Believe

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• Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to.

  Phoebe Stone

  Heart, Stories, Fairy Tale

  Phoebe Stone (2012). “The Boy on Cinnamon Street”, p.5, Scholastic Inc.

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• I am still confused as to why they chose to lie and tried to make me a legend when the real heroics of my fellow soldiers that day were, in fact, legendary. People like Lori Piestewa and First Sergeant Dowdy who picked up fellow soldiers in harm's way. Or people like Patrick Miller and Sergeant Donald Walters who actually fought until the very end. The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own ideals of heroes and they don't need to be told elaborate tales.

  Jessica Lynch

  Confused, Real, Lying

  "Rambo image was based on lie, says US war hero Jessica Lynch" by Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2007.

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• Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Tired

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• It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so - and all the more - what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is - blind or not - a good world to live in, a promising universe. . . . We once thought we lived on God's footstool, it may be a throne.

  Clarence Day

  Life, Stars, Dark

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• Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Fairy Tale, Novel

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• Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales.

  Jay Heinrichs

  Country, Writing, Men

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• O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishment certain; and that innocence, though oppressed by injustice, shall, supported by patience, finally triumph over misfortune!And, if the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it—the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Humble, Hands, Punishment

  Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Arthur Machen (2017). “Five Gothic Masterpieces: The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Great God Pan, Frankenstein, Carmilla, and Dracula”, p.622, Open Road Media

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• Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.

  Lord Byron

  Sadness, Saddest

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid

  William Shakespeare

  Winter, Night, Fire

  'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. 40

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• A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion.

  Samuel Johnson

  Honesty, Men, People

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 25 Mar. 1776)

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• England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

  Walter Scott

  Christmas, Sports, Xmas

  Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.112

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• Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.

  Washington Irving

  Men, Names, Passing Away

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.144, Penguin

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• The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale.

  Alexander Smith

  Ocean, Sea, White

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• Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping in that minor chord, disease. Say you are well, or all is well with you, And God shall hear your words and make them true.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Disease, Chords, Worn

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• No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a culture holds that nothing is better than anything else, and that all things are in themselves equally meaningless. Except for the fragments of faith (in progress, in compassion, in conscience, in hope) to which it still clings, illegitimately, such a culture teaches every one of its children that life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing.

  Michael Novak

  Children, Compassion, Progress

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• When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.

  George Herbert

  Needs, Mirth, Sin

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.5

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• Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.

  William Cowper

  Missing, Lessons, Mates

  William Cowper (1858). “Works of Cowper and Thomson”, p.119

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• A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration, well applied; But sedentary weavers of long tales Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails.

  William Cowper

  Illustration, Your Side, Long

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.86

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• Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Simple, Laughing, Failing

  Oliver Goldsmith (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces”, p.14

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• Tell tales out of school.

  John Heywood

  School, Gossip

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.446

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