Tales Quotes - Page 34

• It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Children, Fairy Tale, Fairy

  "Nathan der Weise" by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, III, 6, 1779.

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• There's no way to explain to a child that the line between good and evil isn't nearly as black and white as a fairy tale would lead you to believe. That an ordinary person can turn into a villain, under the right circumstances. That sometimes we dragon slayers do things we aren't proud of.

  Jodi Picoult

  Life, Children, Believe

  "House Rules". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 2, 2010.

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• The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well. I do not know where it finally fetched up, if it ever did; perhaps it reached the sea and sails there forever, like a magic boat in a fairytale. All I know is that it was still afloat and still running on the breast of the flood when it passed the incorporated town limits of Derry, Maine, and there it passes out of this tale forever.

  Stephen King

  Running, Brother, Sea

  "It". Book by Stephen King, 1986.

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• Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the one who brings the news and passes on the histories. The teacher, the bard, the singer of tales is a freer of men's minds and bodies, especially when he roams without allegiance to one chieftain or another. But he is also a danger to the masters if he insists upon telling the truth. The truth will inevitably cause tremors in those who cling to power without honoring justice.

  Kate Horsley

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

  Kate Horsley (2002). “Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel”, p.87, Shambhala Publications

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• You cannot make a social-consciou s picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.

  Fritz Lang

  Heart, Mean, Hands

  "Who The Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors". Book by Peter Bogdanovich, 1988.

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• Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.

  Robert Breault

  Overcoming, Obstacles, No Excuses

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• Then it's settled," Harriet said. "We shall work out the smaller roles later.""What about you?" Elizabeth demanded."Oh, I'm going to be the goddess of the sun and moon.""The tale gets stranger and stranger," Daniel said."Just wait until act seven," Miss Wynter told him."Seven?" His head snapped up. "There are seven acts?""Twelve," Harriet corrected, "but don't worry, you're in only eleven of them. Now then, Miss Wynter, when do you propose that we begin our rehearsals? And may we do so out of doors? There is a clearing by the gazebo that would be ideal.

  Julia Quinn

  Moon, Doors, Work Out

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• As in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?" The skull howled with laughter. "You just got your ass handed to you by a nursery tale?""I wouldn't say they handed me my ass," I said.Bob was nearly strangling on his laughter, and given that he had no lungs it seemed gratuitous somehow. "That's because you can't see yourself," he choked out. "Your nose is all swollen up and you've got two black eyes. You look like a raccoon. Holding a dislocated ass.

  Jim Butcher

  Laughter, Eye, Two

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.31, Penguin

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• I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.

  Gregory Peck

  Tact, Discretion

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• Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.

  John Milton

  Letting Go, Tragedy, Divinity

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.425

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• Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Rivers, Law, Guy

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• Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

  Don Henley

  Warrior, Fairy Tale, Failing

  Song: The End of the Innocence, Album: The End of the Innocence

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• In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Blood

  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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• The square is your friend. Behind every missed lay-up is a tale of the square neglected.

  Digger Phelps

  Squares, Neglected, Behinds

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• Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means of drugs, beautiful women, lush gardens, and religious promises. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Religious, Giving Up

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• "What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail?

  William Wordsworth

  Prayer, Spring, Dark

  William Wordsworth (2009). “The Poems of William Wordsworth: Collected Reading Texts from the Cornell Wordsworth Series”, p.632, Humanities-Ebooks

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• At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which private life unfolded the gripping show of its adventures. Nowadays, time moves forward at a rapid pace. Forgotten overnight, a historic event glistens the next day like the morning dew and thus is no longer the backdrop to a narrator's tale but rather an amazing adventure enacted against the background of the over-familiar banality of private life.

  Milan Kundera

  Morning, Moving, Adventure

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• Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of the memory and old tales, of the high and distant mountains.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Morning, Memories, Climbing

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• There are so may ways to kills yourself, they're just old-fashioned with their permanganate: do you think I'd take permanganate? I wouldn't want to burn my insides out and live to tell the tale as well: idiots! It's simple, I'd drown myself... Why be in misery at the last?

  Christina Stead

  Art, Simple, Thinking

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• Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down to mere nonentity. But let me not hear any small witticism to the further effect that its story is a tale told by a vulgarian, full of slang and blanky, signifying-nothing.

  Joseph Furphy

  Art, Player, Stories

  Joseph Furphy, Frances Devlin-Glass (1991). “The annotated Such is life: such is life : being certain extracts from the diary of Tom Collins”

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• So there are different examples of fairy tales, and sometimes I believe in them and sometimes I don't.

  Taylor Swift

  Believe, Example, Different

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• Don't Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret. Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read

  Abraham Verghese

  Loyalty, Broken, Lovely

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• I think every beautiful tale in the world hides the truth and reveals it little by little.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Beautiful, Thinking, World

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• A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Art, Philosophy, Men

  Jean Paul Sartre (1949). “The diary of Antoine Roquentin”

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• It never ceases to amaze us that when we were in kindergarten they taught us that a frog turning into a prince was a nursery fairy tale, but when we got to college they told us that a frog turning into a prince was science.

  Ron Carlson

  College, Taught Us, Frogs

  Ron Carlson, Ed Decker (2003). “Fast Facts® on False Teachings”, p.47, Harvest House Publishers

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