Tales Quotes

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

I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to have no star map for our future.

Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales.

Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance.

Jokes spread around the world and embed themselves in our shared culture; the most resonant of them get lodged in the language in the same way as clichés or old wives' tales do.

There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

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

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

If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.

I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.

Be careful, boy. In some tales, the hero gets eaten by the monster after all .

Only - only that, if you believe the tales, it's in the nature of our people to go to war and to kill, just as it is to sing and play and tell stories. Perhaps they are two halves of the same whole.

I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.

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!

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

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

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.

Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with a kind of metaphorical look at some aspect of our lives.

None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.

Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.

Snow White has always been one of my favorite fairy tales growing up. To be able to say, "I'm going to be Snow White" - it's crazy. It's an honor.

I think the big thing is the fairy tale. It's taking old folk fairy tales and retelling them in modern day. I think it's just taking you out of everyday life, and everyone loves a good fairy tale.

For so long I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices, and other people have written books and told tales.

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

After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.

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

I'm sure you can even find ménage à trois in medieval tales.

I am very much interested in fairy tales. I guess that most of the films I like to do have this kind of aspect.

He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.

Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.

The language of the novel differs from the just-the-facts language of the old tales. It's robust and earthy, sometimes even baroque.

The sahara desert the Rapunzel the charity the gifted tales.

All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back and forth behind our days, but those tales grow too and shake us just as fierce.

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

Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I started making up a world where my needs wouldn´t exist at all.

Tales of adultery are much improved by period costumes.

Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales.

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.

It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they have to bust out of their own coffins and do the saving themselves.

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.

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!

Before you enter the forest, you must leave your mind outside, because in the land of fairy tales there is no need for it!

I've always been a mythology lover, and so I took a great deal of inspiration from the tales of various dark gods and popular versions of Hell from the Greeks and the Norse stories.

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.