Quotes About Tale

I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.

If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

A fine story', said Asterinov .... 'Six months in prison, that tale,' said Sergei. 'Was it the witch?', I asked 'I never know where the Party stands on issues of the supernatural...' ..... 'It was, - understand, I do not know for sure, I heard this at second or third hand - it was the walk through the forest. Apparently I was just too convincing in the representation of a poor man's yearning for money...'

Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

There was no sign on the face of nature of this amazing tale that was not so much told as suggested to me in desolate exclamations, completed by shrugs, in interrupted phrases, in hints ending in deep sighs.

The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get distracted or allow yourself to drift, you will never make it to the destination. It's not like highly defined train tracks or a highway; this is a path that you are creating discovering. The journey is your narrative. Keep to it and there will be a tale told.

I cannot tell how the truth may be;I say the tale as 'twas said to me.

Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'twas Christmas told the merriest tale; a Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor man's heart through half the year.

Celui-là sent la mangue. Encore une histoire avec plus de noyau que de chair.

race was presumed to be an essential biological category. This is not a happy-ending tale of science overcoming racism.

There is evidently some story being circulated about you. But what that story is you must know as well as anyone. And you are going to tell me' 'It is so wicked,' moaned Mabel. 'Of course it is wicked,' I said briskly. 'There is nothing that you can tell me about people's minds that would astonish or surprise me.

Seven Words' is a wanderer's tale, a well-worn subgenre in the tradition of farewell songs. The tune itself is trying to evoke the familiar act of leaving somebody in order to save them, or continue seeking.

Does the Sower feed the tale Or the tale feed the Sower?

Valmiki sat in the lotus posture with his eyes shut, to listen to the tale of a human prince who was as immaculate as the stars.

Rules cease to exist once they have outlived their value, but forms live on eternally. There are forms of the novel which impose on the suggested topic all the virtues of the Number. Born of the very expression and of the diverse aspects of the tale, connected by nature with the guiding idea, daughter and mother of all the elements that it polarizes, a structure develops, which transmits to the works the last reflections of Universal Light and the last echoes of the Harmony of Worlds.

With respect, said Red, and his voice had gone so quiet people hushed each other to hear him, my tale is yet unfinished; you should hear me out. And it is her answer I have come to hear, not yours.

Johnny was sobbing in shuddering gasps, telling me his small tale of woe, that the world was suddently different, and that he wanted me to make it better, right now please. --Liadan's interpretation of her baby's cries.

What came next is very hard to tell. Indeed, I have told it but once before, when I needed to, and I will tell it this time only becaude it forms a strand in the fabric of my story, and it wove itself into what came after.

Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!

In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining.