Tales Quotes

Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest incident can make a story.

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!

I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak.

Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.

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

I am not a great believer in fairy tales. Every woman should fight hard for her own happy endings. Although occasionally it is nice to wake up as a princess.

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness.

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

...a tale of too many cooks in the defence.

Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.

A tale in everything.

I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.

It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the year is dying.

Fairy-tales are nice.

A drink is shorter than a tale

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

Tales From Topographic Oceans is like a woman's padded bra.

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

If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.

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

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

Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales.

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

I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

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

All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.

I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth. You get a little bit older, you can't read fairy tales any more.

It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth.

I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.

For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power

The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.

I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

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

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

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them

There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.

The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.

The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it.

A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure.

Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.