Tales Quotes - Page 36

• Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.

  Henry Gee

  Patterns, Becoming, Process

  Henry Gee (1999). “In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life”, p.136, Cornell University Press

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• Before you enter the forest, you must leave your mind outside, because in the land of fairy tales there is no need for it!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Land, Mind, Needs

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• Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Fairy Tale, Feds, Nightingales

  Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.561, Delphi Classics

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• I've always been into having stories told to me. I was a voracious reader, my father was also a teller of tales; and the kind of Baron Munchausen proxy of a tall tale was much more interesting than a true tale.

  Damon Lindelof

  Father, Interesting, Stories

  "Damon Lindelof on Struggling With Depression and Why Knowing J.J. Abrams is 'A Bit of a Curse'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 8, 2015.

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• If somebody had told me when I was starting composition in Helsinki in the '70s that I would end up in L.A. and to describe that journey, those 17 years with the philharmonic and building the hall and this and that, I would have said, "This is a fairy tale of the first order."

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Journey, Order, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The regime is in trouble economically and can no longer offer anything to its citizens. That's why [Vladimir] Putin has to pursue an aggressive foreign policy, so he can serve his people the fairy tale of Russian pride and regaining its strength as a major power.

  Garry Kasparov

  Pride, People, Citizens

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• Once upon a time, there was a boy who learned to read at the age of 5. This changed his life. Owing to the adventure tales he read, he discovered a way to escape from the poor house, the poor country, and the poor reality in which he lived.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Country, Adventure, Boys

  "Peruvian Writer Mario Vargas Llosa on the Importance of Literature". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 31, 2012.

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• These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.

  Cory Doctorow

  Children, Naughty, Scare

  Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross (2012). “The Rapture of the Nerds: A tale of the singularity, posthumanity, and awkward social situations”, p.66, Macmillan

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• The human spirit is itself the most wonderful fairy tale that can possibly be. What a magnificent world lies enclosed within our bosoms! No solar orbit hems it in, the inexhaustible wealth of the total visible creation is outweighed by its riches!

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Lying, Imagination, Vision

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• It is easy to say we believe in God as long as we remain in the little world we choose to live in; but get out into the great world of facts, the noisy world where people are absolutely indifferent to you, where your message is nothing more than a crazy tale belonging to a bygone age, can you believe God there?

  Oswald Chambers

  Crazy, Believe, Long

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.497, Discovery House

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• Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utterly boring and utterly unbelievable.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Would Be, Stories, Literature

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• All of mathematics is a tale about groups.

  Henri Poincare

  Groups, Mathematics

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• We are not a warlike people. Nor is our history filled with tales of aggressive adventures and imperialism, which might come as a shock to some of the placard painters in our modern demonstrations. The lesson of Vietnam, I think, should be that never again will young Americans be asked to fight and possibly die for a cause unless that cause is so meaningful that we, as a nation, pledge our full resources to achieve victory as quickly as possible.

  Ronald Reagan

  Meaningful, Adventure, Fighting

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• You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

  Rudyard Kipling

  Desire, Fairy Tale, Perceive

  Rudyard Kipling (1970). “A book of words. Souvenirs of France. Something of myself”

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• I met Shannon Hale through some friends and family. I was interested in her book called Princess Academy, which is just a very sweet, Newbery-nominated fairy tale for young readers. She was like, "Oh, actually I have something else for you." She gave me Austenland. The next morning, I'm sure I called her and I was like, "Let's make this movie." It is so fun. It just felt so girly and great and a great vehicle for the weird Hess comedy.

  Jerusha Hess

  Girly, Sweet, Morning

  "Interview: Jerusha Hess and J.J. Feild of 'Austenland'". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. August 22, 2013.

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• Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a social commentator - like the great Victorians, a realist in his way. But he isn't at all like that. His genre is actually more like a fairy tale - weird transformations, long voyages from which people come back altered, parental mysteries, semi-magical twists.

  Martin Amis

  Genre Is, Long, People

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• The biggest difference for me is that the tales really have no logical outlet, no particular infrastructure in which to present them as you would have with a film festival. There's no IMDb for audio dramas. So there's a lot of work with no particular reward.

  Larry Fessenden

  Drama, Differences, Audio

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality.

  Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh

  Reality, Modern, Economic

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• Keep in mind that we're always up to other things, so we tend to sit on things from time to time. In an uninterrupted world, I think we could have each of the tales finished, soup to nuts, in a week.

  Glenn McQuaid

  Thinking, Nuts, Mind

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I love the idea that people are listening to "Tales" during all types of activities. Knitting in their favorite chair, rock climbing, sky diving, driving at night.

  Glenn McQuaid

  Night, Knitting, Rocks

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it as a comedy tale, rather than a victim's story.

  Suzanne Shaw

  Trying, Looks, Stories

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• The imagined beings have their insides on the outside; they are visible souls. And man as a whole, Man pitted against the universe, have we seen him at all till we see that he is like a hero in a fairy tale?

  C. S. Lewis

  Hero, Men, Soul

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's a rule for what makes good fantasy work, and it's as strange as any riddle ever posed in a fairy tale: In fantasy, you can do anything; and therefore, the one thing you must not do is 'just anything.' Why? Because in a story where anything can happen and anything can be true, nothing matters. You have no reason to care what happens. It's all arbitrary, and arbitrary isn't interesting.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  Interesting, Arbitrary, Stories

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• I'll bring what I bring to the tale, but it's good to know you have two guys with the experience and know-how in big games.

  Eli Manning

  Games, Two, Guy

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• The beliefs of your country mostly become your own beliefs! Not the reason but the empty tales shape you!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, Shapes, Belief

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