Tales Quotes - Page 5

• A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams and nightmares upon facts. ... What's inside is every fairy-tale monster, a brutal ogre, a bloodthirsty werewolf, an elegant vampire, a scheming devil, a bullying giant, a sneering troll, or maybe just an abusive stepfather.

  Ron Franscell

  Dream, Bullying, Insecurity

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• American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.

  Bertrand Tavernier

  Cinema, Fairy Tale, International

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• It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery.

  Charles Hard Townes

  Writing, Science, Discovery

  "Nobel Prize in Physics". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. March 18, 1991.

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• I believe in God, who can respond to prayers, to whom we can give trust and without whom life on this earth would be without meaning (a tale told by an idiot). I believe that God has revealed Himself to us in many ways and through many men and women, and that for us here in the West the clearest revelation is through Jesus and those that have followed him.

  Nevill Francis Mott

  Jesus, Prayer, Believe

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• In Grimm's fairy tales, you kiss a frog and in two seconds, it becomes a prince. That is a fairy tale. In evolution, you kiss a frog and in two million years, it becomes a prince.

  D. James Kennedy

  Kissing, Two, Years

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• Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.

  Duane Gish

  Fairy Tale, Evolution, Fairy

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• 'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me!

  Walter Scott

  Love, Revenge, Fate

  Walter Scott (1869). “Poetical Works: Complete in One Volume with All His Introd. and Notes”, p.95

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• She looks like a fairy tale, but yet feels so natural (natural, natural, natural)
  This one's a beast, but way to wonderful to be compared to an animal

  DJ Drama

  Song, Animal, Looks

  Song: Day Dreaming, 2009

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• Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

  George Orwell

  War, Lying, Drug

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.31, Arcturus Publishing

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• Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of how hard it can be when it's really hard, and I think we easily all talk ourselves into the proposition that it's never been as hard as this. Well it's been hard in the past. It's been really hard. So you keep doing it and, the more you do it, the more you gain strength and confidence that you can do it.

  Julia Gillard

  Leadership, Past, Thinking

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• Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Memorable, Player, Government

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.135, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell

  Leadership, Men, Paris

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• In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

  Ben Bova

  Believe, Writing, Add

  Ben Bova (1998). “Twice Seven: Stories”, Eos

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• In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Running, Writing, 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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• I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire to communicate, to organize experience, to tell tales that dramatize the adventures which readers might have had. I have been that ancient man who sat by the campfire at night and regaled the hunters with imaginative recitations about their prowess. The job of an apple tree is to bear apples. The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.

  James A. Michener

  Jobs, Writing, Adventure

  James A. Michener (2014). “The World Is My Home: A Memoir”, p.17, Dial Press

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• Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Uplifting, Garments, Everlasting

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• Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Chess, Fairy Tale, Blunders

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• Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Sorrow, Fields, Done

  Oliver Goldsmith (1830). “The vicar of Wakefield, etc. (University edition.)”, p.217

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• Each one of us needs time and space for recollection, meditation and calmness.... Thanks be to God that this is so! In fact, this need tells us that we are not made for work alone, but also to think, to reflect or even simply to follow with our minds and our hearts a tale, a story in which to immerse ourselves, in a certain sense to lose ourselves to find ourselves subsequently enriched.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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• Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

  Joni Mitchell

  Love, Real, Moon

  Song: Both Sides, Now

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• Uncertainty in the pressure 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

  Support, Comforting, Wish

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• There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered and somewhere along the way the reality of life gets in the way and you're hit by the realization that you can't be all you wanted to be, you just might have to settle for a little bit less.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Love, Dream, Believe

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Dead men tell no tales.

  John Dryden

  Life, Death, Men

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.3334, Delphi Classics

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• The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Communication, Long, Example

  "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid". Book by Douglas Hofstadter, 1979.

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• Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! Then, Jack, her lips! O, Jack, lips smiling at their own discretion! and, if not smiling, more sweetly pouting - more lovely in sullenness! Then, Jack, her neck! O, Jack, Jack!

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Love, Eye, Pouting

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1825). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Complete in One Volume”, p.28

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