Quotes About Tales

Stories are not made from common and routine occurrences. Impressionist tales suggest that we learn more from the exceptional than from the topical. In some quarters this is heresy.

He glared at me and pointed at the plate of food. "Eat. I must return to the tent and see if Hisself requires anything." He smirked and raised an eyebrow. "Simus is telling his tall tales, and those city-dwellers are believing every word. I needs get back and poke holes in the bucket he carries his conceit in.

Meninas bonitas em contos de fadas são tão banais como seixos na praia.

It's all the old tales sailors tell about Finns. How they are a race of magicians and warlocks. How they can sing up a storm any time they've a mind to. Why, back in the old sailing days you'd be hard put to find a captain who would sign up a Finn—or a crew who would tolerate having him aboard!

Happiness has no history and the story tellers of all lands have understood this so well that the words "they are happy" are the end pf every love tale.

Both the tales did illustrate how good luck follows opportunity. Herein lies a truth that many similar tales of good luck, won or lost, could not change. The truth is this: Good luck can be enticed by accepting opportunity.

'The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me. But the one that made me want to make movies was 'The Tales of Hoffman.' That's my favorite film of all time. It's a fantasy film. It's an opera. I never get tired of it.

Recalls The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, the better work of Jim Thompson (The Grifters; After Dark, My Sweet) and Thomas Berger's tales of small-town souls who succumb to murderous mayhem.

Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred;

You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales.

Why are these two gallant allies battling each other to the bitter end?? ..... mainly to get you to buy this mag and see the answer inside! ( If we can't always be clever, we can at least be honest!) (Tales of Suspense #58)

Politics always change. Stories never do.

One of the great things about tales is how fast time may pass when not much of note is happening. Real life is never that way, and it is probably a good thing.

A million lives below me, a million heartbreaks big and small, tales of joy and loss and survival, a million little victories every day.

It was bizarre, getting to know for the first time a woman whose body I'd entered. In the scrambled word game of contemporary mating rituals, there was greater intimacy in her tales of woe than there had been in the opening of her thighs.

As fear approaches in the night, Flee from the field and hide from sight. The power stirs, the anger wakes, The rage upon the darkness breaks, A fearful lesson, learned full well, A tale that they alone can tell.

While the tales were most like only tales, none could doubt the truth of the riddle.

Children digest terror differently. The boy saw a horror, and that horror became the wicked witch of fairy tales, the cruel snow queen.

TALES OF SOUTHERN WATERS

Researching real history has taught me to be bolder and more imaginative in building fantasy worlds and writing fantasy characters, to seek out the margins of history and the forgotten tales that illuminate the whole, complex truth of our flawed yet wondrous nature as a species.

I like to create characters and worlds, and there's nothing like telling your own stories.

The first science fiction show on television was 'Tales Of Tomorrow' using scripts from the radio show 'X-1' which used stories from 'Galaxy Magazine' as its source material.

My Grandpa Tony was a legend in our family, and also in his own mind. There's no end to the tales of his exploits.

desire for Oisin's delightful tales of these brave Pagans would overcome in Patrick the zest for theological controversy — "Oisin, sweet to me is thy voice, And a blessing, furthermore, on the soul of Fionn! Relate to us how many deer Were slain at Sliabh-nam-Ban-Fionn." And, Oisin, mollified, forgiving and forgetting Patrick's strictures on his Fian fellows, would forthwith launch into another of his rare tales.