Tales Quotes - Page 27

• The greatest sci-fis, in my mind, are two things: They're what-ifs - what if this happened, and you get to see it - but they're also these philosophical cautionary tales. They deal with the underlying themes beneath the what-if.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Philosophical, Two, Mind

  "Chris Pratt And Bryce Dallas Howard Are Living Our Dinosaur Fantasies In ‘Jurassic World’". Interview With Matthew Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2015.

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• You can believe in originals only if you just don't know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it lies with the teller, not the tale.

  William Monahan

  Lying, Believe, Literature

  Source: collider.com

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• In crime fiction, I just don't write the parts that aren't a thriller and it's exactly the same in my TV reporting - I distill the essence of the story until it's only the jewels of the tale - and leave in only the most compelling and exciting parts.

  Hank Phillippi Ryan

  Writing, Essence, Jewels

  "Interview: Hank Phillippi Ryan, 'The Other Woman'". Interview with Pamela Clare, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. October 4, 2012.

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• Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Art, Writing, Criticism

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• To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.

  W. H. Auden

  Fairy Tale, Hunts, Symbols

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• Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Too Late, Limping

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1784). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Including the Whole of His Posthumous Pieces, Letters, &c”, p.15

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• I'm not sure if it's fair to call it a "fairy tale," but I really loved Mulan, the Disney film. It was my favorite. I guess it's not really a fairy tale, but you do get Eddie Murphy as a dragon.

  Lily Cole

  Dragons, Fairy Tale, Film

  "Talking About Fairy Tales with Lily Cole". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. May 30, 2012.

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• The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They represent escapism, but they all feature themes that have such poignancy in a modern world.

  Lily Cole

  Men, Dawn, Different

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

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• I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a catharsis in telling a miserable old tale; you get rid of demons.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Thinking, Catharsis, Band

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• When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction Ive ever written.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Echoes, Once Upon A Time, Fiction

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• He tells old wives' tales much to the point.

  Horace

  Wife, Old Wives Tales

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• A tale in everything.

  William Wordsworth

  William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2003). “Lyrical Ballads and Other Poems”, p.45, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is no more terrible woe upon earth than the woe of the stricken brain, which remembers the days of its strength, the living light of its reason, the sunrise of its proud intelligence, and knows that these have passed away like a tale that is told.

  Ouida

  Light, Sunrise, Brain

  Ouida (1874). “Folle-Farine”, p.196

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• Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.

  Thomas Otway

  Grief, Sorrow, Speak

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.125

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• It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.

  Isak Dinesen

  Stories, Half, Bad Things

  Isak Dinesen (2002). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.337, Penguin UK

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• A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter, while the moralistic tale is not only dead on arrival, it's already been embalmed. It's safer that way. When a lively story goes dancing out to meet the imagination of a child, the teller loses control over meaning. The child gets to decide what the story means.

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Mean, Unique

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• Change is the essence of life; change is the great challenge, the great constant. Change is the ultimate teller of tales.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Change, Life Changing, Essence

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• I have no urns, no dusty monuments;
  No broken images of ancestors,
  Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales
  Of long descents, to boast false honors from.

  Ben Jonson

  Long, Broken, Honor

  Ben Jonson, Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1966). “The Complete Plays: The alchemist. Catline, his conspiracy. Bartholomew Fair. The devil is an ass. The staple of news. The new inn; or, The light heart. The magnetic lady; or, Humours reconciled. A tale of a tub. The sad shepard; or, A tale of Robin Hood. The case is altered. Glossary”

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• Rumour was the messenger
  Of defamation, and so swift, that none
  Could be the first to tell an evil tale.

  Robert Pollok

  Evil, Rumor, Messengers

  Robert Pollok (1857). “The Course of Time: A Poem”, p.277

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• Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire
  To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire;
  Blest that abode, where want and pain repair,
  And every stranger finds a ready chair
  Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crown'd,
  Where all the ruddy family around
  Laugh at the jest or pranks, that never fail,
  Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale,
  Or press the bashful stranger to his food,
  And learn the luxury of doing good.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Pain, Simple, Fire

  Oliver Goldsmith (1833). “Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author”, p.81

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• Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, Fiction, Fairy Tale

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.269

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• Don't just tell me a mystery; give me a world. Suzanne Myers delivers a hurricane-ravaged island shimmering with atmosphere and dense with secrets. This tight, terrific tale had me turning pages all night long.

  Judy Blundell

  Night, Islands, Long

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• It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

  Homer

  Tedious

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• Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn.

  Socrates

  Secret, Thee, Slander

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• Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.

  Agnes Repplier

  Reading, Glasses, Vision

  Agnes Repplier (1898). “Varia”

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