Tale Quotes - page 13

I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that sails right over the heads of most kids. There's something to be said for a well-told fairy tale. There's a reason that these mythic stories stay with us. (John C. Reilly)
Chaucer, in his Canterbury Tales, makes the monk much better skilled in riding and hunting, than in divinity. The same poit, afterwards, in the Ploughman's Tale, takes occasion to accuse the monks of pride, because they rode on coursers like knights, having their hawks and hounds with them. In the same tale he severely reproaches the priests for their dissolute manners, saying, that many of them thought more upon hunting with their dogs, and blowing the horn, than of the service they owed to God. View quote
Joseph Strutt
I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a catharsis in telling a miserable old tale; you get rid of demons. View quote
Anne-Marie Duff
Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism. View quote
Arnaud Desplechin
When I was a kid, I used to sneak down the stairs when my folks were listening to 'The Witch's Tale' and 'Inner Sanctum' on the radio. I went to see 'Frankenstein' in the movie theater and got the pants scared off of me. View quote
Al Feldstein
Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere. View quote
Buzz Bissinger
Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done. View quote
Cameron Dokey
When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage. View quote
Candice Millard
People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we find ourselves fascinated because we're trying to understand why people behave the way they do, why they make the choices they do, how we become who we become. View quote
Dan Chaon
Two forces create eternity - a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale. View quote
Dejan Stojanovic
Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over. (Diane von Furstenberg)
My life is a fairy tale. You could not make it up. View quote
Elio Di Rupo
Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, ‘I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.' View quote
Ernie Harwell
History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities. View quote
Graydon Carter
I always believed 'The Fly' to be a classic opera story. It's a tale of love and death, true love surviving in the face of physical decay and ultimate sacrifice. View quote
Howard Shore
It's a beautiful tale, and today is a beautiful day without any bugs. View quote
Hugo Pratt
I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really. View quote
Jennifer Ellison
'The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because there is so much plot. View quote
Jesse L. Martin
I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life. View quote
John Stamos
Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has unfolded and come to its triumphant conclusion, it is as if the bad things had never been. Life is not as simple as that, not quite. View quote
Juliet Marillier
I'm so excited to see 'Horns' because it's so many different genres in one film. It's a sci-fi, it's a love story, it's a horror movie, it's a fairy tale. (Juno Temple)
I think Gov. Romney and Congressman Ryan are living in a fairly tale land on their energy policy. View quote
Ken Salazar
Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special. View quote
Kit Williams
When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book. View quote
Kate Bernheimer
When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale - fairy tales are brutal. View quote
Kate Bernheimer