Tales Quotes - Page 26

• We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that the heroine/hero can become a person of character and power. Stories of heroes and heroines often begin with a wound or loss or injustice and end with heroic acts of restoration.

  David Richo

  Hero, Character, Loss

  David Richo (2007). “The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know”, p.17, Shambhala Publications

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• I loved fairy tales as a kid. I've always been drawn to fantasy. They're always exciting. There's never a dull moment. I just love the embellishments and the magical stuff. It's such fun to work with and to re-imagine your own way.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Fun, Kids, Dull

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• You say that if we hadn't just gotten married, you would want to marry Miss Arkansas. Even if she can't spell. She can sit on her hair. A lover could climb that hair like a gym rope. It's fairy-tale hair, Rapunzel hair. We saw her practicing for the pageant in the hotel ballroom with two wild pigs, her hair braided into two lassoes.

  Kelly Link

  Two, Hair, Pigs

  Kelly Link (2010). “Stranger Things Happen”, p.209, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Lying, Statistics, Fairy Tale

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• Less and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly. More and more often there is embarrassment all around when the wish to hear a story is expressed. It is as if something that seemed inalienable to us, the securest among our possessions, were taken from us: the ability to exchange our experiences...Experience has fallen in value. And it looks as if it is continuing to fall into bottomlessness.

  Walter Benjamin

  Fall, Taken, People

  "Illuminations". Book by Walter Benjamin, 1950.

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• Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

  William Irwin Thompson

  History Of Life, Fairy Tale, Natural

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• In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in constant chaos. Thus children's fairy tales as well as adult's legends, cosmological myths, and indeed philosophical systems are shelters built by the mind in which human beings can rest, at least temporarily, from the siege of inchoate experience and of doubt.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Children, Philosophical, Mind

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• You can think of my films as cautionary tales, but you might even think of them as despairing tales, because at least in a cautionary tale, you have this idea that by listening to the story you can assure a better outcome. Whereas I'm not at all convinced that's the case. In fact, if anything, I'm convinced that it's the opposite.

  Errol Morris

  Thinking, Opposites, Ideas

  "The Eleven-Minute Psychiatrist". Interview with James Hughes, Stop Smiling Magazine, www.errolmorris.com. March 2006.

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• Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.

  Jack Vance

  Book, Fairy Tale, Century

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• Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done.

  Robert Hunter

  Inspiration, Done, Lines

  "Song: "Lady With a Fan"". 1977.

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• Seventeen years after its intial release, The Empire Strikes Back is still as thrilling and involving as ever. Because of the high quality of the original product, it doesn't show a hint of dating. Neither [Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope nor Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi] were able to match the narrative scope of Empire, which today remains one of the finest and most rousing science fiction tales ever committed to the screen.

  James Berardinelli

  Stars, War, Years

  "Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,

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• The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence is inherent in everything that is alive, allowing our yearning for supernatural miracles to be subsumed by our joy in the countless miracles that surround us.

  Ursula Goodenough

  Religious, Joy, Miracle

  Ursula Goodenough (2000). “The Sacred Depths of Nature”, p.30, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Everybody sees me as a solitary entity but I long to be important to somebody It's a love of fairy tales that drives this guilty wish To walk serenely in front of family to collect my kiss and though this notion is as flawed as any I have learned I'd like to think that like the others, it's something I deserve

  Happy Rhodes

  Kissing, Thinking, Long

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• Have you ever been tempted to start your own business? First read this cautionary tale, especially if you think your ideas come from God.

  Phil Vischer

  Thinking, Ideas, Firsts

  "Me, Myself, and Bob: A True Story About God, Dreams, and Talking Vegetables". Publisher's Weekly review of Phil Vischer's book, www.publishersweekly.com. October 09, 2006.

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• Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it is for him, and for the mother who is striving in this age of profusion to guard the innate simplicity of her child's nature, that I have written my little stories.

  Maud Lindsay

  Mother, Children, Love Is

  Maud Lindsay (2010). “A Story Garden for Little Children”, Heart of Dixie Publishing

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• Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak.

  K'naan

  Hunting, Lions, Speak

  Song: Until the Lion Learns to Speak

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• Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive of many things of very great importance. Theology, on the other hand induces a dogmatic belief that we have knowledge where in fact we have ignorance and by doing so generates a kind of impertinent insolence towards the universe. Uncertainty in the presence of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.

  Bertrand Russell

  Ignorance, Hands, Support

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.2, Routledge

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• Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Running, Blood, Teeth

  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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• Fishes and tales And a fisherman's daughter Walks in the rain, She walks to the water To the sea.

  Daniel Lanois

  Daughter, Rain, Rivers

  Song: Fisherman's Daughter, Album: Acadie, 2008

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• Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?

  John Ford

  Hollywood, Film, Cavalry

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• Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.

  Beau Bridges

  Native American, Epic, Film

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

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• ...a tale of too many cooks in the defence.

  Ian Brown

  Football, Cooks, Defence

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• Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Mind, Atheism, Superstitions

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• If, when we compare two versions of a story, the second known to be a retelling of the first, and find that the second has more of a miraculous element, we may reasonably conclude we have legendary (or midrashic or whatever) embellishment. The tale has grown in the telling. This sort of comparison is common in extrabiblical research and no one holds that it cannot properly indicate legend formation there.

  Robert M. Price

  Two, Religion, Atheism

  Robert M. Price (2008). “Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity”, p.117, Wildside Press LLC

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• The NBA is fairy tale and real life mixed together.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Real, Nba, Together

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