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Quotes About Tale

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?
~ David Byrne, How Music Works
Life is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing
~ William Shakespeare, Macbeth
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.
~ J. K. Rowling
In every good tale there is a seed of truth, and from that seed a lovely story grows. Some of what I've told you is true and some . . . well, let's just call it the bloom on the rosebush.
~ William Kent Krueger
My, my! That does sound serious. He's almost delirious, But let's not give up yet. The sun still hasn't set On this grim tale of grief. Of course, as its chief Architect, I know how it ends. But this river has more bends Before it flows into the sea. So I'll forgo my omnipotence And keep you in the dark. Oooooo! What suspense! I just love being me!
~ David Elliott
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
~ David Herbert Lawrence
This Hassani declared to me that he would not begin hostilities, but he began nothing else; the prospect of getting slaves overpowers all else, and blood flows in horrid streams. The Lord look on it! Hassani will have some tale to tell Mohamad Bogharib.
~ David Livingstone
Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless?
~ Mark Slouka
A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
~ O. Henry
I think I'm always drawn to a good story
~ Jamie Campbell Bower
The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.
~ Aaron Stanford
History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.
~ I. F. Stone
A chronicle is very different from history proper.
~ Howard Nemerov
I have a plot, but not much happens.
~ Howard Nemerov
Well, honor is the subject of my story.
~ William Shakespeare
I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller
~ G.K. Chesterton
Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
~ William Shakespeare, Macbeth
It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know.
~ Nelson Mandela
All life is bound to a simple truth... that time goes on, that in each person's life begins a tale, a tale that will either end in memory or in legend.
~ M.J. Chrisman
But my daddy always said that story was a fish tale. That was his way of describing a trumped-up story, like a whopper
~ Jason Rekulak
nadie renuncia a la posibilidad de contar algo anómalo.
~ Javier Marías
It is a strange tale and utterly Barsoomian.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
By Amergin, can neither of you see the folly? Ending the lives of these men will change nothing. The only one changed will be you, Brie. Remember the tale of Casiope, the archer? Revenge is as an arrow; it will surely return one day and pierce the one who shoots it. -Collun
~ Edith Pattou