Tales Quotes

Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally free.

I like to make people happy, and with fairy tales, I can say anything I want to, but in an agreeable way.

The Czech movies, the quality movies, are trying to show the life in the country as it is, in an entertaining way, while in America, the majority of movies are wonderful fairy tales.

There weren’t any fairy tales in the streets around me. If there was ever a Cinderella, her glass slippers shattered under her weight and she limped home bleeding from the ball.

I went to the library as soon as I could walk. So the training came from reading all kinds of people, from fairy tales and later on to - I don't know why - Schweitz's "Life of Christ."

I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.

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

Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals.

But, when tales of the cosmos are told, this period of ours may always be recalled as that in which men first came to realise what a violent universe we inhabit.

Even as a kid, I read Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.

My goal is to write stories that are connected, but not sequels in any meaningful sense. Like Howard's Conan tales or Leiber's Fahrrd & the Great Mauser stories.

As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.

The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.

Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.

Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified.

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

Science Fiction: fairy tales for nerds.

There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

The tale is often wiser than the teller.

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

Tales of heroes end in bliss.

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

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

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.

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?

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

All great novels are great fairy tales.

Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.

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

The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.

The pagan gods are not dead, but can return to topple science with superstition and modern man with besti*l pleasures that pre-date civilisation.