Tales Quotes - Page 22

• The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fair-tale creatures, which suddenly flew away over the roof, so that one was at one with the firmament.

  Marc Chagall

  Stars, Air, Magic

  "Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 - 1922" edited by Christoph Vitali, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, exhibition catalogue (p. 41), 1991.

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• In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by.

  Heinrich Heine

  Gone, Vain, My Thoughts

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine (Illustrated)”, p.321, Delphi Classics

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• There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.

  Samuel Lover

  Motherhood, Voice, Childhood

  Samuel Lover (1858). “The Lyrics of Ireland. Edited and Annotated by S. Lover”, p.14

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• I hate To tell again a tale once fully told.

  Homer

  Hate, I Hate

  Homer (1871). “The Odyssey of Homer: Translated Into English Blank Verse”, p.272

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• A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Character, Prudes, Credit

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• Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Memories, Long Ago, Dear

  "Long, Long Ago" (song) (ca. 1835)

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• I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales and myths, magical stories. I think they are somehow closer to the sense of reality one feels today than the equally stylized 'realistic' story in which a great deal of selectivity and omission has to occur in order to preserve its 'realist' style.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Reality, Thinking, Order

  "Kubrick, Inside a Film Artist's Maze". Book by Thomas Allen Nelson, p. 14, 2000.

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• Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen.

  Philip Sidney

  Confusion, Matter, Causes

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him -- or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness.

  Susan Faludi

  Waiting, Doe, Fairy Tale

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• The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.

  Paul Davies

  Ideas, Fairy Tale, Porridge

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• Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we weave the narratives of myth and folk tale into our daily existence.

  Jack Zipes

  Narrative, Fabric, Ancient

  Jack Zipes (2013). “Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale”, p.4, University Press of Kentucky

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• During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power.

  Edward Alsworth Ross

  Powerful, War, Military

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• To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth have to be elementary, simple. Good and evil, the antagonists of all great drama in some guise, must be believably personalized. The moral ideals common to all humanity must be upheld. The victories must not be too easy. Strife to test valor is still and will always be the basic ingredient of the animated tale, as of all screen entertainments.

  Walt Disney

  Drama, Simple, Evil

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• Animals are unpredictable things, and so our life is unpredictable. It's a long tale of little triumphs and disasters and you've got to really like it to stick it.

  James Herriot

  Animal, Unpredictable Things, Long

  James Herriot (2012). “If Only They Could Talk: The classic memoirs of a 1930s vet”, p.34, Pan Macmillan

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• Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till tears of pity glisten in their eyes, or boiling passion shakes their tender frames.

  John Hancock

  Children, Passion, Eye

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• The magic is as wide as a smile and as narrow as a wink, loud as laughter and quiet as a tear, tall as a tale and deep as emotion. So strong, it can lift the spirit. So gentle, it can touch the heart. It is the magic that begins the happily ever after.

  Walt Disney

  Strong, Laughter, Heart

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• With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the hurrying train of Life, fly backward far and fast The milestones of the fathers, the landmarks of the past. But human hearts remain unchanged: the sorrow and the sin, The loves and hopes and fears of old, are to our own akin; And if, in tales our fathers told, the songs our mothers sung, Tradition wears a snowy beard, Romance is always young.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Mother, Dream, Song

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I., the Works of Whittier”, p.120, tredition

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• I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve them in characters. The kind of fairytales I don't like are the ones with happy endings, where there's just good and evil and things are perfect. I think when there's a good story for children it has a moral tale, so that's what I try to teach my kids.

  Angelina Jolie

  Children, Crazy, Character

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When you're late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love's-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead you don't recover from.

  Mira Grant

  Kissing, Wind, Glasses

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• I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is not a simple page, a simple word, on earth -\-\ for all pages, all words, predicate the universe, whose most notorious attribute is its complexity.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Writing, Simple, Earth

  Jorge Luis Borges (2005). “Brodie's Report: Including the Prose Fiction from In Praise of Darkness”, Penguin Classics

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• PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our emerging data literacy. It shows that tools matter: Good ones help us think well and bad ones do the opposite. Ever since it was first released in 1990, PowerPoint has become an omnipresent tool for showing charts and info during corporate presentations.

  Clive Thompson

  Thinking, Opposites, Data

  Clive Thompson (2013). “Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better”, p.56, Penguin

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• The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't.

  Lauren Beukes

  Justice, Fairy Tale, Fairy

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• There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just a story. Stories are all we’re ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles

  Steven Hall

  Clever, Writing, Together

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• History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane.

  Scott Anderson

  Butterfly, Wings, Decision

  Scott Anderson (2013). “Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East”, p.89, Anchor

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• Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of - heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales.

  Charles de Lint

  Empathy, Mind, Wizardry

  "Into the Green". Book by Charles de Lint, 1993.

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