Quotes About Tale

Mrs. Kooshof's intolerance for complexity, for the looping circuitry of a well-told tale, symptomizes an epidemic disease of our modern world. (I see it daily among my students. The short attention span, the appetite limited to linearity. Too much Melrose Place.)

Leave it to the Alderaanians to slap a cheery end on a nice little grisly children's morality tale.

They say a story that begins with a beet will end with the devil; that is a risk we will have to take.

I want a good story, with a beginning, middle and end.

Even before the boat was fully beached, he jumped into the shallow water. "Gates, his bay!" he supposedly shouted as he slogged ashore. Whether or not the tale is true, the bay on the eastern shore of St. George's Island still bears Gates's name.

Contained in the raven's untold tale was some knowledge, some wisdom the bird had gathered in his flight. Secret even from God. Perhaps the birds were telling it still, and no ears to hear.

Has my tale turned you speechless? Come, curse me or kiss me or call me a liar. Something.

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

Hark! that's the nightingale, Telling the self-same tale Her song told when this ancient earth was young: So echoes answered when her song was sung In the first wooded vale.

But that is another story.

And thereby hangs a tale.

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

I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver.

Never trust the teller. Trust the tale.

as historias se cuentan a si mismas, no las cuenta uno

El pasado es historia, y ¿qué es la historia salvo un relato hecho de aire que nos contamos a nosotros mismos?

I always believed 'The Fly' to be a classic opera story. It's a tale of love and death, true love surviving in the face of physical decay and ultimate sacrifice.

The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.

What a tale he's told, what a bitter bowl of war he's drunk to the dregs.

Story determines structure; structure doesn't determine story.

this is the only story in the world that nobody but me will ever be able to tell.

Emily, I am confident, would not be able to resist telling her own tale on a snowy Christmas Eve, regardless of Colin's feelings on the subject. She would, however, wait until the boys were just a bit older before sharing it with them. Heaven knows what it might inspire Henry to do.

The Snow Leopard's Tale is a mystical pilgrimage into that wild country where animal passion and the human heart begin to walk the very same trail. Whether one has been in the business of adventuring, as Thomas McIntyre has, or has enjoyed such adventures from the safety of one's armchair, The Snow Leopard's Tale is a haunting, beautifully written, and thought-provoking tale, as all great parables are.

'Dhruva' is not a first person narrative of Siddharth Abhimanyu.