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Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, though it wasn't my time, or your time, or anyone else's time...
~ Joseph Jacobs
That was quite a story, sir!
~ Joseph Lanzara
Heatherstar of WindClan told this ridiculous story
~ Erin Hunter
Every road and every step along it begins with a story.
~ Bill Willingham
Is that a True Story, Papa said. Well I won't say it's a Fact Story, Calley said, but Yes Sir I will say it is for god dam sure a True Story.
~ Bill Wittliff
'The Marriage of Souls', like 'The Rationalist', is an exploration of humanist philosophy wrapped between the delicate leaves of an eighteenth-century tale. The story of the two novels - and they should be read as a two-volume work - centres around the old war-horse of boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy finds girl. But what a boy and what a girl.
~ Amanda Foreman
The fans are the ones that really tell the tale, and I think they speak very loudly about where I stand in pro wrestling. I don't think that there are too many people who would tell you that I don't deserve to be there.
~ Ken Shamrock
Every team writes its own story.
~ Martin Brodeur
the fate of that sinful King of Runazar in Lord Dunsany's tale, whom the Gods decided must not only cease to be, but must cease ever to have been.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.
~ Polybius
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.
~ Leo Tolstoy
This is a fair tale of a tub told of his election.
~ Sir Thomas More
The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love.
~ Propertius
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
You have a long history, he said, when Lanya indicated her story was finished. Ah, Harrier, were I to tell you a long story, we should be here for a sennight, perhaps more. Long stories are best saved for deep winter, when the days are short and time grows heavy. Lanya glanced at the sky.
~ Mercedes Lackey
The Tale of Peter Rabbit Table of Contents
~ Beatrix Potter
I am Uhtred, son of Uhtred, and this is the tale of a blood feud. It is a tale of how I will take from my enemy what the law says is mine. And it is the tale of a woman and of her father, a king. He was my king and all that I have I owe to him. The food that I eat, the hall where I live, and the swords of my men, all came from Alfred, my king, who hated me.
~ Bernard Cornwell
So now I shall write the tale's ending with my sword beside me and I shall hope that I am given time to finish this tale of Arthur, my Lord, who was betrayed, reviled and, after his departure, missed like no other man was ever missed in all of Britain's history.
~ Bernard Cornwell
I am Uhtred, son of Uhtred, and this is the tale of a blood feud. It is a tale of how I will take from my enemy what the law says is mine. And it is the tale of a woman and her father, a king. He was my king and all that I have I owe to him. The food that I eat, the hall where I live, and the swords of my men, all come from Alfred, my king, who hated me.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Il tempo è una storia e io voglio essere colui che la racconta, non colui che la crea.
~ Bernard Cornwell
And then, standing among the trunks of the fruit trees, silver-grey in the moonlight, I recalled that the way to banish an old ghost that continues its hauntings is to exorcise it. Well then, mine should be exorcised. I should tell my tale, not aloud, by the fireside, not as a diversion for idle listeners – it was too solemn, and too real, for that. But I should set it down on paper, with every care and in every detail. I would write my own ghost story.
~ Susan Hill
Shall you tell him or shall I?" Billie said. George took a breath. "Well, now that is quite a story . . .
~ Julia Quinn
It's always the story that interests me.
~ Vincente Minnelli
The intrusion fantasy uses the form of the club story - the unquestioned tale - to construct reality, then renders the walls of the world-story translucent.
~ Farah Mendlesohn