Tales Quotes - Page 12

• Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.

  Gary Ross

  Years, Twelve, Hundred

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

  John Howe

  Dragons, Bridges, Fairy Tale

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• Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova Scotia to New Orleans. Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won't soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting.

  Keith Donohue

  New Orleans, America, Grace

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• A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.

  Gelett Burgess

  Mice

  "The Maxims of Methuselah". Book by Gelett Burgess, 1907.

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• Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

  Isak Dinesen

  Silence, Doe

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Last Tales”, p.105, Vintage

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• We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

  Ransom Riggs

  Believe, Peculiar, Fairy Tale

  Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.17, Quirk Books

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• I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller,
  the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered-
  as a storyteller. A good storyteller.

  Louis L'Amour

  Men, Thinking, Shadow

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Shadow Riders”, p.66, Bantam

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• The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!

  Dziga Vertov

  Drama, Live Life, Long

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• That's the thing about a folk tale: It is always addressing incredibly key issues about how you should live and what the right thing to do is, which is really what I'm the most interested in - like the questions that religion takes on. And I think that, for those of us that aren't religious, we need, or I need, art that stimulates the same kind of thinking about what it is to be a mensch, or a good man, things like that.

  Benh Zeitlin

  Religious, Art, Men

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

  Susan Wiggs

  Stories, Fairy Tale, Centre

  Susan Wiggs (2001). “The you I never knew”

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• Patti Callahan Henry seamlessly combines mystery, family love, and personal journey all in one engrossing tale. From the intriguing beginning to the touching ending, The Stories We Tell is filled with the warmth, heart and compassion that have become the trademark of her novels.

  Diane Chamberlain

  Heart, Family Love, Journey

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• Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book and my longtime working understanding and definition of it, noir stories are bleak, existential, alienated, pessimistic tales about losers--people who are so morally challenged that they cannot help but bring about their own ruin.

  Otto Penzler

  Art, Book, People

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• 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.

  Jane Yolen

  Stars, Book, Believe

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• 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.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Father, Imagination, World

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• Story of O is a fairy tale for another world, a world where some part of me lived for a long time, a world that no longer exists except between the covers of a book.

  Anne Desclos

  Book, Long, Stories

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• Europe is often held up as a cautionary tale, a demonstration that if you try to make the economy less brutal, to take better care of your fellow citizens when they're down on their luck, you end up killing economic progress. But what European experience actually demonstrates is the opposite: social justice and progress can go hand in hand.

  Paul Krugman

  Hands, Europe, Opposites

  "Learning From Europe" by Paul Krugman, www.nytimes.com. January 10, 2010.

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• There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Sweet, Men

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Twelfth-night. Winter's tale. Macbeth. King John”, p.519

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• Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human invention than we would have expected, there is also a sort of wild fairy interest in them, which makes me think them fully better adapted to awaken the imagination and soften the heart of childhood than the good-boy stories which have been in later years composed for them.

  Walter Scott

  Country, Heart, Boys

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• I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Fashion, Lasts, Fairytale

  Charles Boner, Mary Russell Mitford (1871). “Memoirs and Letters of Charles Boner: With Letters of Mary Russell Mitford to Him During Ten Years”, p.123

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

  Max Luthi

  Fairytale, Fairy Tale, Realistic

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• The tale of the Monkey Girl gave me wat I needed most at a critical time in my life: the image of the creative and complex woman, unique to herself but willing to share those considerable gifts with a man capable of intuiting the wealth of her worth hidden beneath the skin. But more than that, the Monkey Girl also suggested that I need not be afraid of the fragile happily-ever-after, that I had resources of my own, and that I would not have to contort myself into a restrictive social role for fear of losing that fairytale ending.

  Midori Snyder

  Girl, Unique, Men

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• Careful the spell you cast, not just on children. Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see And turn against you... Careful the tale you tell. That is the spell.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Children, Past, Justice

  "Into the Woods". m.imdb.com. 2014.

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• With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

  Philip Sidney

  Children, Men, Play

  'The Defence of Poesie' (1595)

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• Fairy-tales are nice.

  Syd Barrett

  Nice, Greatest Love, Fairy Tale

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard work of making their marriages happy."

  Linda Miles

  Marriage, Hard Work, Needs

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