Tales Quotes - Page 16

• As in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?" The skull howled with laughter. "You just got your ass handed to you by a nursery tale?""I wouldn't say they handed me my ass," I said.Bob was nearly strangling on his laughter, and given that he had no lungs it seemed gratuitous somehow. "That's because you can't see yourself," he choked out. "Your nose is all swollen up and you've got two black eyes. You look like a raccoon. Holding a dislocated ass.

  Jim Butcher

  Laughter, Eye, Two

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.31, Penguin

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• I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.

  Gregory Peck

  Tact, Discretion

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• Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.

  John Milton

  Letting Go, Tragedy, Divinity

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.425

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• Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Rivers, Law, Guy

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• Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

  Don Henley

  Warrior, Fairy Tale, Failing

  Song: The End of the Innocence, Album: The End of the Innocence

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• In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Blood

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.30, Grove Press

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• The square is your friend. Behind every missed lay-up is a tale of the square neglected.

  Digger Phelps

  Squares, Neglected, Behinds

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• Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means of drugs, beautiful women, lush gardens, and religious promises. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Religious, Giving Up

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• "What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail?

  William Wordsworth

  Prayer, Spring, Dark

  William Wordsworth (2009). “The Poems of William Wordsworth: Collected Reading Texts from the Cornell Wordsworth Series”, p.632, Humanities-Ebooks

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• Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of the memory and old tales, of the high and distant mountains.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Morning, Memories, Climbing

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• There are so may ways to kills yourself, they're just old-fashioned with their permanganate: do you think I'd take permanganate? I wouldn't want to burn my insides out and live to tell the tale as well: idiots! It's simple, I'd drown myself... Why be in misery at the last?

  Christina Stead

  Art, Simple, Thinking

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• Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down to mere nonentity. But let me not hear any small witticism to the further effect that its story is a tale told by a vulgarian, full of slang and blanky, signifying-nothing.

  Joseph Furphy

  Art, Player, Stories

  Joseph Furphy, Frances Devlin-Glass (1991). “The annotated Such is life: such is life : being certain extracts from the diary of Tom Collins”

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

  Taylor Swift

  Believe, Example, Different

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• Don't Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret. Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read

  Abraham Verghese

  Loyalty, Broken, Lovely

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• I think every beautiful tale in the world hides the truth and reveals it little by little.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Beautiful, Thinking, World

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• A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Art, Philosophy, Men

  Jean Paul Sartre (1949). “The diary of Antoine Roquentin”

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• It never ceases to amaze us that when we were in kindergarten they taught us that a frog turning into a prince was a nursery fairy tale, but when we got to college they told us that a frog turning into a prince was science.

  Ron Carlson

  College, Taught Us, Frogs

  Ron Carlson, Ed Decker (2003). “Fast Facts® on False Teachings”, p.47, Harvest House Publishers

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• The poet Muriel Rukeyser said the universe is composed of stories, not of atoms. The physicist Werner Heisenberg declared that the universe is made of music, not of matter. And we believe that if you habitually expose yourself to toxic stories and music, you could wind up living in the wrong universe, where it's impossible to become the gorgeous genius you were born to be. That's why we implore you to nourish yourself with delicious, nutritious tales and tunes that inspire you to exercise your willpower for your highest good.

  Rob Brezsny

  Music, Believe, Exercise

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• I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve read fairy tales, you know that everything can talk,from trees to chairs to tables to brooms. So I grew up thinking that, and I turned it into stories.

  J. California Cooper

  Writing, Thinking, Tree

  FaceBook post by J. California Cooper from May 15, 2012

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• Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

  Philip Pullman

  Suspense, Stories, Love Story

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• Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Book, Philosophical, Letters

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

  William Shakespeare

  Winter, Goblin

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 2, sc. 1, l. 24

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• Some fairy tales end with the girl marrying the prince... some start there.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Girl, Fairy Tale, Ends

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• Shark Tale feels borrowed, sampled and dittoed from the collective funniness of the past 10 years in studio-made animation.

  Desson Thomson

  Past, Sharks, Years

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• Anthony Ryan is a new fantasy author destined to make his mark on the genre. His debut novel, Blood Song, certainly has it all: great coming of age tale, compelling character, and a fast-paced plot. If his first book is any indication of things to come, then all fantasy readers should rejoice as a new master storyteller has hit the scene.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Song, Book, Character

  Interview with Fran Friel, amazingstoriesmag.com. March 22, 2013.

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