Quotes about Tale

The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated. Votes: 4

Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movie 'A Bronx Tale' tells us, it is better to be feared if you can't be loved. Votes: 4

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers. Votes: 3

One can fight money only with money! from my Tale Of The Rock Pieces. Votes: 3

the man eventually becomes what he dreams of"By T. Afsin Ilgar - Ted`s Tale Votes: 3

The first game I actually bought myself with my own money was 'The Bard's Tale.' Votes: 3

Shark Tale feels borrowed, sampled and dittoed from the collective funniness of the past 10 years in studio-made animation, Votes: 3

When people ask me why is 'Winter's Tale' a fantasy, I point out that it is not a fantasy. Votes: 3

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do. Votes: 3

[As of November 17, 2006] 'Noelle's Treasure Tale' has remained at No. 3 on the New York Times children's best seller list since its October 10 release. Votes: 3

I absolutely knew that I wanted to play role-playing games when I saw a friend of mine playing 'Bard's Tale 2' on his Commodore 64. Votes: 3

Haunted by demons of the past, hounded by demons not yet met, the nevermore and evermore left her little peace.~A Tale of Two Women Votes: 3

When I was a little girl, I thought I was Sydney Carton in Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' I don't think anyone else did. Votes: 3

The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because there is so much plot. Votes: 3

Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he's somebody whom I've been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read 'The Tell-Tale Heart' at age four. Votes: 3

The Tale of Despereaux came at the request of Luke, my friend's then-eight-year-old son, who asked, "Write for me the story of an unlikely hero with exceptionally large ears." Votes: 3

I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the 'Tale of Two Cities' by providing real opportunity to all New Yorkers, no matter where they live. Votes: 3

Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan. Votes: 3

Most of the auditions I went on, I passed up the projects because I just wasn't interested. When I read A Knight's Tale, that was that. I knew I wanted to do this movie. Votes: 3

The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then must save her. It's a triumph of the human spirit, via a mouse. Votes: 3

I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read. Votes: 3

When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure. Votes: 3

My first real acting gig was probably playing Mamillius in my mother's 'Winter's Tale.' My mom and dad are both in theater, so I grew up acting and being a little theater brat as well. Votes: 3

The Princess Bride S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it. Votes: 3

How could you do nothing to him, if you fought so hard?” she asked. “I’m lust and he’s wrath!” he yelled. “I’m a lover, he’s a fighter!” Virtue - A Fairy Tale Votes: 3

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. Votes: 2

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does. Votes: 2

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers. Votes: 2

I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white. Votes: 2

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future. Votes: 2

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell. Votes: 2

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. Votes: 2

Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK. Votes: 2

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. Votes: 2

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen. Votes: 2

Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary. Votes: 2

I've learned that I want what I deny. I want someone who is crazy about me, who treats me like a princess. I want the picture-perfect fairy tale stuff. Votes: 2

I always believed 'The Fly' to be a classic opera story. It's a tale of love and death, true love surviving in the face of physical decay and ultimate sacrifice. Votes: 2

Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre. Votes: 2

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. Votes: 2

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. Votes: 2

I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl. Votes: 2

I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little bit of the fairy tale. Let others photograph the ugliness of the world. I don't want to distress people. Votes: 2

I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book. Votes: 2

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Votes: 2

Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism. Votes: 2

Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood. Votes: 2

A tale in everything. Votes: 0

Trust the tale, not the teller. Votes: 0

A false tale often betrays itself. Votes: 0

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness. Votes: 0

Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups. Votes: 0

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders. Votes: 0

Never trust the teller, trust the tale. Votes: 0

What so tedious as a twice-told tale? Votes: 0

Ever heard the tale of Neptune's Children? Votes: 0

Evolution is a fairy tale for adults Votes: 0

As one tale ends, so another begins. Votes: 0

Every tale is not to be believed. Votes: 0

Why can't love be a fairy tale? Votes: 0

A drink is shorter than a tale Votes: 0

Of an old tale which every schoolboy knows. Votes: 0

A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour! Votes: 0

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale. Votes: 0

All of mathematics is a tale about groups. Votes: 0

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. Votes: 0

History is a tragegy, not a morality tale. Votes: 0

The tale is often wiser than the teller. Votes: 0

Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale. Votes: 0

I want to believe in the fairy tale. Votes: 0

Every affair is a fairy tale or a tragedy. Votes: 0

This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws. Votes: 0

It is the tale, not he who tells it. Votes: 0

...a tale of too many cooks in the defence. Votes: 0

This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City. Votes: 0

You are the fairy tale told by your ancestors. Votes: 0

A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure. Votes: 0

There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation. Votes: 0

Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale. Votes: 0

Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'. Votes: 0

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale. Votes: 0

Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction. Votes: 0

The NBA is fairy tale and real life mixed together. Votes: 0

Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view. Votes: 0

'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction. Votes: 0

A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid. Votes: 0

...which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince? Votes: 0

The wordy tale, once told, were hard to tell again. Votes: 0

It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for. Votes: 0

Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end. Votes: 0

Make a fairy tale and go and live in it. Votes: 0

The tale of a righteous leftist - THE BRAND DEMAND Votes: 0

The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians. Votes: 0

To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality. Votes: 0

I hate To tell again a tale once fully told. Votes: 0

In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Votes: 0

The ache of empty arms was an old tale to you. Votes: 0

The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't. Votes: 0

A vivid tale of exploration set in a howling, deadly wilderness. Votes: 0

You want the fairy tale." "I want a chance at it. Votes: 0

History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities. Votes: 0

Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars. Votes: 0

Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement. Votes: 0

To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal. Votes: 0

Let these eyes tell the tale until it is too late. Votes: 0

Realism: the wealth of detail guarantees the truth of the tale. Votes: 0

And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Votes: 0

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. Votes: 0

Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale. Votes: 0

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism. Votes: 0

The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable. Votes: 0

Nations conquered and true love prevails, all encompassed in a poets tale. Votes: 0

In fact, you-he pointed his fork at me-look like a fairy tale. Votes: 0

Maybe it's a fairy tale, but I believe in happily ever after. Votes: 0

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul Votes: 0

Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale. Votes: 0

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in. Votes: 0

A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go. Votes: 0

but sing no more this bitter tale that wears my heart away Votes: 0

My life is a fairy tale. You could not make it up. Votes: 0

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. Votes: 0

Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told. Votes: 0

Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century. Votes: 0

The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality. Votes: 0

It's a beautiful tale, and today is a beautiful day without any bugs. Votes: 0

My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport. Votes: 0

The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love. Votes: 0

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws. Votes: 0

She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine. Votes: 0

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale. Votes: 0

Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between Votes: 0

And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves. Votes: 0

Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale. Votes: 0

If you wish to view this as a cautionary tale, be my guest. Votes: 0

Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece. Votes: 0

A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins. Votes: 0

A key and a strangler - this is all a simple tale requires. Votes: 0

My tale doesn't end there, for the end has yet to be written. Votes: 0

We have to eat to live, and that's our timeless tale of tragedy. Votes: 0

She looks like a fairy tale, but yet feels so natural (natural, natural, natural) Votes: 0

These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes. Votes: 0

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth. Votes: 0

We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution. Votes: 0

So, I subscribe to the following reading: Star Wars is an essentially Christian tale. Votes: 0

I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is. Votes: 0

He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly. Votes: 0

A Fiddle for Angus is a charming tale. This is a very fine book. Votes: 0

The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale, Votes: 0

A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale. Votes: 0

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere. Votes: 0

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere. Votes: 0

So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were. Votes: 0

That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns. Votes: 0

...flames moved towards himand dropped within-singed and marred his tender skin ...(the frightful plight tale) Votes: 0

Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to. Votes: 0

Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless? Votes: 0

A bitter reality of truth can be wisely told in a sweet tale of lullaby. Votes: 0

For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record. Votes: 0

Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes. Votes: 0

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing. Votes: 0

Yesterday is gone and took away its tale. Today we must live a fresh story again. Votes: 0

Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used. Votes: 0

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience. Votes: 0

Yule"”Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner"”of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner. Votes: 0

Whether histories have a happy ending or not depends on when the chronicler ends the tale. Votes: 0

The square is your friend. Behind every missed lay-up is a tale of the square neglected. Votes: 0

Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours? Votes: 0

It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it. Votes: 0

I got into the genesis of Star Wars, and the tale seemed to me endlessly fascinating. Votes: 0

I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell. Votes: 0

At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power Votes: 0

Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale. Votes: 0

With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe! Votes: 0

I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner. Votes: 0

If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool. Votes: 0

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale. Votes: 0

Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie. Votes: 0

No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way. Votes: 0

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate. Votes: 0

If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale. Votes: 0

It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery. Votes: 0

The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped,deserves to be whipped. Votes: 0

I think every beautiful tale in the world hides the truth and reveals it little by little. Votes: 0

UNMARKED is both gorgeous and hideous. A frightening and disturbing tale spun with great beauty. Absolutely riveting. Votes: 0

But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear. Votes: 0

If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either. Votes: 0

Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison. Votes: 0

If there is one "˜constant' in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation. Votes: 0

First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream. Votes: 0

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special. Votes: 0

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers. Votes: 0

I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.' Votes: 0

The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale. Votes: 0

An unforgettable tale of love, lust, faith, betrayal, and redemption. A powerful, mesmerizing suspense novel-a tour de force! Votes: 0

Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence. Votes: 0

I have no time to explain now. It is a thrilling tale, I wish to do it justice. Votes: 0

Ken & Mark weave a simple, compelling tale that contains profound truths. If only we all knew The Secret. Votes: 0

Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice. Votes: 0

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. Votes: 0

For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement. Votes: 0

I think Gov. Romney and Congressman Ryan are living in a fairly tale land on their energy policy. Votes: 0

Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves. Votes: 0

Has my tale turned you speechless? Come, curse me or kiss me or call me a liar. Something. Votes: 0

In the end what will prevail is your passion not your tale, for love is the Holy Grail. Votes: 0

A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor. Votes: 0

People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller. Votes: 0

With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark. Votes: 0

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me. Votes: 0

Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth Votes: 0

I want to have the fairy-tale life with a wife and three or four kids. It will come. Votes: 0

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. Votes: 0

1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names. Votes: 0

What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale. Votes: 0

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering. Votes: 0

'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names. Votes: 0

The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting. Votes: 0

A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. Votes: 0

To tell a tale so great as to tear the soul inside outSara Niles, Torn From the Inside Out Votes: 0

Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life. Votes: 0

The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny. Votes: 0

I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you. Votes: 0

Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale. Votes: 0

To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart. Votes: 0

Pride and Prejudice' is often compared to 'Cinderella,' but Jane Austen's real 'Cinderella' tale is 'Mansfield Park.' Votes: 0

We often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true. Votes: 0

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch. Votes: 0

To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature. Votes: 0

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches. Votes: 0

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. Votes: 0

The Mahabharata,' which inspired my novel 'Palace of Illusions,' also has many stories embedded within the main tale. Votes: 0

Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own. Votes: 0

[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man. Votes: 0

The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is! Votes: 0

If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale. Votes: 0

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen Votes: 0

Rumour was the messenger Of defamation, and so swift, that none Could be the first to tell an evil tale. Votes: 0

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told." Votes: 0

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it. Votes: 0

As cynical as I can be, there's always a part of me that believes in love and the fairy tale. Votes: 0

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. Votes: 0

...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. Votes: 0

Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning. Votes: 0

Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life. Votes: 0

The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be. Votes: 0

That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after. Votes: 0

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale. Votes: 0

A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane. Votes: 0

Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine. Votes: 0

Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done Votes: 0

I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really. Votes: 0

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss. Votes: 0

Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over. Votes: 0

The time comes when our hearts sink utterly; When we remember Deirdre and her tale, And that her lips are dust. Votes: 0

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it. Votes: 0

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life. Votes: 0

Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks. Votes: 0

A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal. Votes: 0

Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly. Votes: 0

I think, a secret love is something none of your friends would understand. And it's like a fairy tale, but more serious. Votes: 0

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale... Votes: 0

A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar Votes: 0

You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that. Votes: 0

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning. Votes: 0

You and me Haymitch.Very cozy.Picnics, birthdays, long winter nights sitting around the fire retelling old Hunger Games tale. -Peeta Mellark Votes: 0

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale Votes: 0

The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity. Votes: 0

An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth. Votes: 0

The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story. Votes: 0

Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life. Votes: 0

Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry. Votes: 0

The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story. Votes: 0

I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind. Votes: 0

Always remember, me dear, whether you're listening to a tale or telling one: Every penny piece that's struck has two sides to it. Votes: 0

Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything changes. Votes: 0

It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything. Votes: 0

Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these truths. Votes: 0

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both. Votes: 0

Oh yeah. That's why. Like a fairy tale. I was marrying the Prince. I just happened to be in love with the pauper. Votes: 0

The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale. Votes: 0

This excerpt includes both a cautionary tale of being caught en flagrante and a stirring defense of getting fucked.Redeeming social value, indeed. Votes: 0

With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. Votes: 0

And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from. Votes: 0

This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the plot. Votes: 0

As I grew up, I read and loved many fairy-tale retellings and began to think about writing my own reimagining of 'Rapunzel.' Votes: 0

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies. Votes: 0

As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale. Votes: 0

Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Votes: 0

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these Votes: 0

But how wonderful when the tale is told,And the message that is meant for usOpens like the scents of a mountain flower! Votes: 0

If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell. Votes: 0

The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress. Votes: 0

Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor. Votes: 0

Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous. Votes: 0

This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful. Votes: 0

Have you ever been tempted to start your own business- First read this cautionary tale, especially if you think your ideas come from God. Votes: 0

A generic vampire tale in the Underworld vein that comes closer to the infamous Van Helsing than a memorable re-interpretation of a legendary monster. Votes: 0

The gentle maid, whose hapless tale,these melancholy pages speak;say, gracious lady, shall she failTo draw the tear a down from thy cheek? Votes: 0

A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory, where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough becomes truth. Votes: 0

Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale Votes: 0

History is not a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in. Votes: 0

She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen. Votes: 0

O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything. Votes: 0

History is not a nightmare from which. I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in. Votes: 0

There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Votes: 0

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. Votes: 0

Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing. Votes: 0

Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth. Votes: 0

There is a tale...It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini would grow. Votes: 0

Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth. Votes: 0

Victoria Roberts spins an exciting Highland tale of intrigue, betrayal, and love with a braw Highland hero and strong English heroine any reader will love. Votes: 0

And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe. And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale. Votes: 0

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way. Votes: 0

Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger. Votes: 0

He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining. Votes: 0

The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn’t. Votes: 0

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink. Votes: 0

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition. Votes: 0

Kindred’s tale is a romantic, mature, and lyrical collage of heaven, hell, and a magical royal legend. The combination is divinely—and demonically—inspired. Votes: 0

The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience, Votes: 0

Richard Barager has written THE novel of the Sixties - a passion-filled, pitch-perfect, roller coaster of a tale about the decade that divides us all. Votes: 0

A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance. Votes: 0

THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world. Votes: 0

Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin. Votes: 0

Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality. Votes: 0

The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland. Votes: 0

Charles Wang, owner of the New York Islanders, serves as something of a cautionary tale in terms of how heavy owner involvement can sink a franchise. Votes: 0

And who would dare write their own death into the script so that the rest of the characters in the tale might live? God of course. Votes: 0

The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth. Votes: 0

Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies. Votes: 0

When you're late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love's-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead you don't recover from. Votes: 0

I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

ONE BLOOD is a richly detailed, intricately woven tale rendered in lush, evocative prose. This memorable debut heralds Qwantu Amaru as a talent well worth watching. Votes: 0

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies. Votes: 0

People talk about places like Mumbai as a tale of two cities, as if the rich and poor don't have anything to do with each other. Votes: 0

In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by. Votes: 0

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives. Votes: 0

It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication. Votes: 0

Some stupid fairy tale charecter. Like a cheap plastic toy you'd get get by sending in the top of a lucky charms box plus $3.99 shipping and handling." Votes: 0

When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don't appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some tale of that. Votes: 0

As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself. Votes: 0

True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale. Votes: 0

And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying. Votes: 0

There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing. Votes: 0

For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people's memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale. Votes: 0

The Sessions becomes a dance of joy in the midst of severe challenge, and a movie with a light spirit that lifts a tale of heavy fate. Votes: 0

And Death spoke to them "”'" "Sorry," interjected Harry, "but Death spoke to them?" "It's a fairy tale, Harry!" "Right, sorry. Go on. Votes: 0

Sometimes a homeland becomes a tale. We love the story because it is about our homeland and we love our homeland even more because of the story. Votes: 0

Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry as a whole? Votes: 0

I have nothing against people having work done, it is when I hear tale of girls of 16 queuing up to get bigger breasts, that is when I despair. Votes: 0

Since I was a little kid, I did like fairy tale. I did dress up like Little Red Riding Hood. My mom had to make me a cape. Votes: 0

All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard work of making their marriages happy." Votes: 0

The difference between a fairy tale and a sea tale? A fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time". A sea tale starts with " This ain't no $hit"! Votes: 0

the story of my marriage, which is the great joy and astonishment of my life, is too much like a fairy tale, the German kind, unsweetened by Disney. Votes: 0

The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates itself. Votes: 0

I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me. Votes: 0

I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better time, consciousness and the dreamlike basis of reality. Votes: 0

I don't believe in this fairy tale of staying together for ever. Ten years with somebody is enough. In ten years, you can give a lot of love. Votes: 0

A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller. Votes: 0

In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us. Votes: 0

Once the 'portals of the future close - in Amazonia, Siberia or the Arctic - we will find ourselves powerless to affect the outcome of this dreadful tale. Votes: 0

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime! Votes: 0

Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic" writing style combined with educational aims. Votes: 0

Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the tale you're telling. Votes: 0

"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? Votes: 0

I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale. Votes: 0

Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true. Votes: 0

The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free. Votes: 0

Animals are unpredictable things, and so our life is unpredictable. It's a long tale of little triumphs and disasters and you've got to really like it to stick it. Votes: 0

In the fairy tale you mentioned last night, I would probably be the villain. But it's possible the villain would treat you far better than the prince would have. Votes: 0

No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning. Votes: 0

I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life. Votes: 0

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician. Votes: 0

They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil. Votes: 0

The escape to an unchallenging fairy tale can be very nice and I'm all for that, but film can also challenge you to confront the realities of our world. Votes: 0

The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage. Votes: 0

This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome prince in the ham-and-eggs. Votes: 0

The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer. Votes: 0

No fairy tale, this. This was by no stretch of the imagination a polished fantasy. This was a searing, living force, rough around the edges, unfamiliar and bittersweet.And precious. Votes: 0

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven. Votes: 0

You cannot make a social-conscious 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. Votes: 0

If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair In other's arms breathe out the tender tale Votes: 0

The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement is inward, into the lands of the soul. Votes: 0

Young adult novels don't shy away from the discussion of weight issues, and 'Blubber,' the tale of an overweight, not-so-sympathetic fifth-grader bullied by her peers, is a refreshing take. Votes: 0

In order to capture Mid-World for new readers, I had to streamline the original tale [ The Gunslinger Born], but I also had to incorporate scenes from earlier Dark Tower novels. Votes: 0

The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of Friends, a fairy tale and a murder mystery. Votes: 0

It won't happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill's lunch. Breakups seldom do. It will unfold slowly, one little tell-tale symptom after another like some awful, hellish flower. Votes: 0

A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees. Votes: 0

The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile. Votes: 0

All life is bound to a simple truththat time goes on, that in each person's life begins a tale, a tale that will either end in memory or in legend. Votes: 0

I can't beleive I'm here to tell the tale, this was my first brush with death, and God must have been looking after us and obviously, it wasn't our time. Votes: 0

I'm so excited to see 'Horns' because it's so many different genres in one film. It's a sci-fi, it's a love story, it's a horror movie, it's a fairy tale. Votes: 0

Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that’s based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it. Votes: 0

It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the moon, some famous inventors, a dog and a rabbit. Votes: 0

Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know. Votes: 0

There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all. Votes: 0

Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale. Votes: 0

All life is bound to a simple truth... that time goes on, that in each person's life begins a tale, a tale that will either end in memory or in legend. Votes: 0

So, as much as it is about this continuing war, the reinstated draft, and their individual views, it's really sort of a deeply human tale, and a character study as well. Votes: 0

Carelessness was once something to be owned. They wore it around their necks as they joined the springtime breeze while ducking in and out of the forest believing their fairy tale. Votes: 0

There's not a wind but whispers of thy name; And not a flow'r that grows beneath the moon, But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale Of thee, my love. Votes: 0

A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or old, still hasten to a close. Votes: 0

The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonorable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told. Votes: 0

The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures. Votes: 0

I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead. Votes: 0

What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.' Well, that's harmless, isn't it?' Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies... it's just a word. Votes: 0

Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say things like "I deserved a better life than this. Votes: 0

A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous and invites everybody to shy a brick at him. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have polished their malarkey and winnowed their wisdom for years. Votes: 0

I live for those rare and delicious moments when the words on the page take off and I am the bystander, watching as the tale shows me what will happen next. Votes: 0

It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you. Votes: 0

And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time. Votes: 0

The Gods and Goddesses of myth, legend and fairy tale represent archetypes, real potencies and potentialities deep within the psyche, which, when allowed to flower permit us to be more fully human. Votes: 0

You have a natural tendency to want an emotionally satisfying tale - and to make investments based on that - despite times when the actual data may be telling you something different. Votes: 0

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail. Votes: 0

My favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz. I love the fairy tale of it. And Gone With the Wind was always one of my favorites because it's so dramatic and stunning. Votes: 0

In the tale proper--where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incident--mere construction is, of course, far more imperatively demanded than in the novel. Votes: 0

I've always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full of treasures, and each item always had a tale attached. Votes: 0

The search for inventive ways of telling the tale of Christ's birth has been going on a long time; in a way, difference was there from the start with Luke and Matthew. Votes: 0

His whole life was a sham, a fairy tale. The truth hidden behind a wall of lies, each lie another brick in the wall until he probably couldn't see the truth anymore. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you are going to live in a house made of candy, don't move next door to a couple of obese kids. A lot of these fairy-tale characters are missing common sense. Votes: 0

Careful the spell you cast, not just on children. Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see And turn against you... Careful the tale you tell. That is the spell. Votes: 0

Ay me! For aught that I could every read,Could ever hear by tale or history,The course of true love never did run smooth, But either it was different in blood- Votes: 0

You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story. Votes: 0

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. Votes: 0

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . . Votes: 0

The truth is, my folk-lore friends and my Saturday Reviewer differ with me on the important problem of the origin of folk-tales. They think that a tale probably originated where it was found. Votes: 0

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it. Votes: 0

In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact! Votes: 0

The Romans did not see [the tale of Romulus, Remus and the she-wolf] as a charming story; they meant to show that they had imbibed wolfish appetites and ferocity with their mother's milk. Votes: 0

...but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and everywhere, overt or disguised, pureblood or hybrid, and healthy as sin. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm very interested in talking about children in this moment where you are going to become a teenager, and I think it's very relevant to use a fairy tale to talk about that. Votes: 0

A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now. Votes: 0

My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I'd like to go fairy tale all the way. Votes: 0

Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the book, and it’s only the end of a chapter. Votes: 0

Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience. Votes: 0

Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment. Votes: 0

'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! Votes: 0

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer. Votes: 0

The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale. Votes: 0

Fate refuses to stop at the pretty part of the tale; Fate insists on more tests of courage and wit, a terrible end, even if the heroine's heart be pure and her crime accidental. Votes: 0

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep and intricate and wondrous. Votes: 0

My father once admonished me to master the laws that govern fine writing until I could weave my words into worlds. If ever I accomplish that feat, I will sign my name to the tale. Votes: 0

TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew - Wanted to know what the River knew, Twenty Bridges or twenty-two, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told: Votes: 0

I'm romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not. Votes: 0

It [the Earth] was breathtakingly beautiful, like something out of a fairy tale. There is no way to describe the joy of seeing the Earth. It is blue, and more beautiful than any other planet. Votes: 0

I know the difference between the confection of live as sung in a minstrel's tale and the sustaining bread of love in reality, he defended himself. Both are to be savoured in their own way. Votes: 0

You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain. You laugh at my tale? You may be educated But you haven't learned to love till you're insane Votes: 0

Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale. Votes: 0

Our subconscious works in metaphors, stories, and word play. That's why a particular story or movie may mean more to some people than to others. Have you considered why you quest for this tale now? Votes: 0

You once told me that I make you believe in the impossible. You make me believe in love, which I'd given up on. Thank you for proving to me it's not just a fairy tale. Votes: 0

Story of O is a fairy tale for another world, a world where some part of me lived for a long time, a world that no longer exists except between the covers of a book. Votes: 0

I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered- as a storyteller. A good storyteller. Votes: 0

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth. Votes: 0