Tales Quotes - page 14

Sarah Michelle Gellar's made some really good choices. She's had some bad breaks. She goes with the independent, interesting young filmmakers and then they get slammed, like 'Southland Tales.' I'm proud of what she's trying to do. It's hard. (Joss Whedon)
O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales. View quote
Leo Rosten
Many, whose hearts are conquered by acute spite, roll out balanced tales from their own heart, which do not balance when you weigh words against deeds. View quote
Lucius Accius
Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful. View quote
Jack Vance
All legends must be based on lies, Gordon realized. We exaggerate, and even come to believe the tales, after a while. View quote
David Brin
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. View quote
R. A. Salvatore
The magic that you hear in tales and things was all based around the Celtic mythology of England, which is Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings. View quote
Donovan
When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called 'Tales From The Crypt' and 'The Vault of Horror.' They were gruesome. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous. View quote
R. L. Stine
Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do. View quote
Fareed Zakaria
Soon round us spread the hills and dales, Where GEOFFREY spun his magic tales, And call'd them history. The land Whence ARTHUR sprung, and all his band Of gallant knights. Sire of romance, Who led the fancy's mazy dance, Thy tales shall please, thy name still be, When Time forgets my verse and me. View quote
Robert Bloomfield
Simple old-fashioned death, the kind that predated the singularity, used to be the inevitable halting state for all life-forms. Fairy tales about afterlives notwithstanding. (Charles Stross)
Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate - like dust. View quote
Isaac Asimov
The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence is inherent in everything that is alive, allowing our yearning for supernatural miracles to be subsumed by our joy in the countless miracles that surround us. View quote
Ursula Goodenough
Beyond the picket fences and the oil wells, the happy endings, and the fairy tales, is the reality of shattered lives and broken dreams. We carry on. View quote
Tim McGraw
The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality. View quote
Eazy-E
My tales may not be roses, but I will not boil them. View quote
George MacDonald
I love memoirs, particularly obscure ones because the writer is usually a regular guy just telling what happened to him and to his friends. What these tales lack in artfulness they make up for in passion and authenticity. For a writer of fiction, they are solid gold. I have stolen so much from memoirs it's ridiculous. View quote
Steven Pressfield
Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings. View quote
Francis Bacon
There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings. View quote
T. S. Eliot
Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them. View quote
Mitch Albom
Before the days of television and mass media, the folksinger was often a traveling newspaper spreading tales through music. (Phil Ochs)
I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the stories I loved growing up. View quote
Daniel Radcliffe
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. View quote
Kara Walker
I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Embarrassing cricket tales. When I was about 14, my school team played against a school called Langdon, somewhere or other in the wilds of East London. They batted first and racked up 180-3 off 20 overs. We got 13. My PE teacher called it the most humiliating day of his life. Years later, he got done for sex offences. I wonder what he thinks now. View quote
Ben Dirs