Tales Quotes
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 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.
Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.
Heart's ease! one could look for half a day Upon this flower, and shape in fancy out Full twenty different tales of love and sorrow, That gave this gentle name.
Fantasy is, I believe, the great nourisher of imagination. To paraphrase Einstein on how to develop intelligence in young people: Read fairy tales. Then read more fairy tales.
Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through.
Then clear on a flute of purest gold A sweet little fairy played. And wonderful fairy tales she told and marvelous music made.
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.
Unkind people spread malicious tales, and well-intentioned people also censure; but in either case the tranquil sage remains unconcerned. Nowhere is there to be found a disconcerted sage.
Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.
Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.
In 1992, fans of our feline temptress got another chance to sink their claws into the new and exciting tales of Catwoman in 'Batman: The Animated Series.'
Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.
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.
The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.
The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.
Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.
The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.
In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.
I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.
When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
Edinburgh is an experience A city of enormous gifts Whose streets sing of history Whose cobbles tell tales.
I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.
For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.
Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.
He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly.
All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.
The square is your friend. Behind every missed lay-up is a tale of the square neglected.
The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.
My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.