Tales Quotes - Page 29

• Whether histories have a happy ending or not depends on when the chronicler ends the tale.

  Linda Gordon

  Happy Endings, Ends, Depends

  Linda Gordon (2011). “The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction”, p.314, Harvard University Press

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• Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Spring, Drama, Autumn

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• I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.

  Jennifer Stone

  Mother, Father, Eye

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• Steve MCQueen created an entire family to tell one man's tale and I am delighted that so many of this family have also been recognised today. I am hugely grateful to the Academy for this great honour, and, of course, to Solomon Northup for sharing his story through his breathtaking book.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Book, Grateful, Men

  "'Dallas Buyers Club,' 'American Hustle,' 'Gravity' score top Oscar nominations" by Courtney Hazlett, www.today.com. January 16, 2014.

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• I never thought I'd have children; I never thought I'd be in love, I never thought I'd meet the right person. Having come from a broken home - you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don't look for them.

  Angelina Jolie

  Children, Home, Broken

  "Angelina Jolie: I thought I'd never find love" By Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. May 8, 2014.

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• Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.

  Horace

  Men, Inquisitive

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• The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.

  George Eliot

  Lips, Pity, Divine

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3792, Delphi Classics

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• All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Sea, Miracle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

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• Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Forgetful, Tedious

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• What's wonderful is to read the different translations - some done in 1600 and some in 1900 - of the same passage. It's fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.

  Bill Vaughan

  Two, Done, Way

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• You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Cake, Would Be, Four

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• What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations aren't real, with falling stars and pirates. But what you do relate to is the emotions that the characters feel.

  Charlie Cox

  Stars, Real, Fall

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• the various earth odors all have a separate tale to tell, and the leaf mold of the woods bears a wholly different fragrance from that of the soil under pasture turf, or the breath that the garden gives off in great sighs of relief when it is relaxed and refreshed by a summer shower.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Summer, Nature, Garden

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• Sharona Muir has written a gripping personal memoir about her odyssey to rediscover and reclaim her father. Along the way she uncovers some hard truths about the heroic founders of Israel and the Beginnings of Israeli science. The Book of Telling keeps in all the fears and resentments and consolations and warmth of such a process-at once her own story and the tale of a nation.

  Edmund White

  Father, Book, Israel

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• Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the kind of logic that you only really experience when youre not feeling very well, or as a child.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Children, Feelings, Logic

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• I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Reading, People, Twists

  "GeekDad Interviews Fantasy Author Joe Abercrombie". GeekDad Interview, www.wired.com. July 24, 2009.

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• Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that doesn't mean you're not free to try. A return to his native Nigeria plunges Cole's charming narrator into a tempest of chaos, contradiction, and kinship in a place both endearingly familiar and unnervingly strange. The result is a tale that engages and disturbs.

  Billy Collins

  Mean, Home, Trying

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• People read vampire novels and say, Oh I want to read another vampire novel. People read fantasy, and theyre like, Oh I love fantasy. I dont know that people are necessarily finishing Hunger Games and immediately wanting to read another dystopian tale.

  David Levithan

  Games, People, Vampire

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• A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Fire, Doe, Pieces

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• I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Dad, Thinking, Ideas

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• Though Snow White might triumph in the tale, she will undoubtedly acquire a mirror after she marries, matures, and has children, and as the mirror reflects her aging and loss of beauty, she will be confronted by a young girl whose innocence and youth will spark her envy and hatred and perhaps drive her to eliminate her “competition.” It appears as though there is a vicious cycle that entraps women up through today. Everything is played out under the male gaze.

  Jack Zipes

  Girl, Children, Loss

  Jack Zipes (2011). “The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films”, p.116, Routledge

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• It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale, and he has held it captive ever since.

  Jack Zipes

  Once Upon A Time, Fairy Tale, Certain

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• The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult trek of Southern blacks to the northern and western cities. This is an epic for all Americans who want to understand the making of our modern nation.

  Tom Brokaw

  Epic, Cities, America

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• A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.

  Thomas More

  Evil, Needs, Wells

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• The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.

  Steven Erikson

  Ideas, Ongoing, Littles

  "Why Did You Bother Telling Me That?". Interview with Peter Orullian, www.tor.com. August 13, 2012.

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