Quotes About Tale

The newspapers continue to bring bad news from China. I do not trust news which comes indirectly, and from afar at that, but - Do you remember that old tale of the woman who gave birth to an elephant? When the truth was discovered, it appeared that the midwife had said the child's nose looked a bit long . . . still, I worry.

As Kipling said, that's another story...

The novel must tell a story.

Oh dear me, yes. The novel must tell a story.

You're beginning to hear the tale of the common man and woman rather than the traditional memoir about the generals who just finished the war or the politicians who just rendered glorious service to the country.

'Frankenstein' feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms.

I first saw 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?' when I was very young. Its transporting qualities were so strong that I felt like I had lived it. Only recently, with adult eyes, was I able to metabolize how tragic a tale it really is.

Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.

A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory, where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough becomes truth.

Truth is better than fiction in terms of telling the story.

Realism: the wealth of detail guarantees the truth of the tale.

Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.

I was afraid that I had made a profound, irrevocable mistake, and that, as in a fantastic tale, if I did not find something firm and magical to grab a hold of right that moment we would both be swallowed up by a noisome gang of black shapes and evil black birds.

In every murder is the tale of a city," he said.

The episode related here is based on a true story.

But that's another story and shall be told another time

Pero esa es otra historia y debe ser contada en otra ocasión.

Ama bu baÅŸka bir öyküdür, baÅŸka bir zaman anlat?lmal?.

Questa è un'altra storia e andrà raccontata un'altra volta

No story is ever told just once.

The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.

I love a story that balances pace with detail.

We heard the Sermon on the Mount and I knew it was too complex, It didn't amount to anything more than what the broken glass reflects. When you bite off more than you can chew you pay the penalty, Somebody's got to tell the tale, I guess it must be up to me. –Bob Dylan, "Up To Me

The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonorable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told.