Tales Quotes

Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have to save ourselves.

All great novels are great fairy tales.

I was more aware initially of shows like Tales of the Unexpected. And the BBC used to put on a lot of one-off, bizarre television plays.

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.

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

Is it because you are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that you listen to the horrid tales of the Bible, or hear them with callous indifference?

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

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.

So there are different examples of fairy tales, and sometimes I believe in them and sometimes I don't.

I have to believe in fairy tales and I have to believe in love.

Tales of heroes end in bliss.

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

The tale is often wiser than the teller.

A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own, that if they were left alone, they would die.

Fishes and tales And a fisherman's daughter Walks in the rain, She walks to the water To the sea.

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

Dead men tell no tales, Mary.

Trust the tale, not the teller.

How easy it is to tell tales!

Every kid loves fairy tales, stories of witches and giants and magicians. Then, when you get a little older you can't read fairy tales anymore.

Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language.

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

I've always loved fairy tales and magic - especially twisting them on their ears and poor trolls have always had such a bad rep.

Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn.

At the end of the day, love is such a normal thing, and everyone deals with it. Just because it's a different lifestyle doesn't change the meaning of what I've been raised on, which is fairy tales.

Kami'd always retold her fairy tales to make the fair maidens braver and more self-sufficient, but she had never had any real objection to the handsome prince.

For some reason, I write about crash-landed spaceships quite a lot and my wife is sick of hearing of hearing my ideas for new tales about them.

Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.

The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies.

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters

People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

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

I mentioned before, these [classic Disney films] are classic mythological tales, a hero's journey, and have been told for thousands of years. Disney has updated them, and made them accessible for us.

I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.

Do you believe in fairy tales?" "What...what kind of fairy tales?" "The kind you aren't supposed to waste your life on.

When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.

Don't talk me about religion! Don't talk me about tales for children! Be serious! Trust science, because only the science can save you!

All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.

I am extremely close to my brother, Kent, and my sister, Lauren, who have been remarkably understanding about all of my weird sibling tales.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

People tend to think of fairy tales as archetypal. They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.

Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!

As a self-respecting dude, I'd never believed in fairy tales, but in that moment, I did. I'd found my angel to live happily-ever-after with.

It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had.

The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.

I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.