Top 1159 Handmaids Tale Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Evolution is a fairy tale for adults

I want to believe in the fairy tale.

Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't know for certain where it will lead your listeners. If you're telling a tale to teach children to be generous, they may fix instead on the part where your hero hides in an olive jar, then spend the whole next day fighting about who gets to try it first. People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.

All of mathematics is a tale about groups.

Every tale is not to be believed.

...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the tale that's told for companionship and to teach something religious, of religious reverence, about real life, in this real world which literature should (and here does) reflect.

Why can't love be a fairy tale?

That's how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until even if you vanished, the tale would keep turning, keep playing, like a phonograph, and you'd have to get up again, even with a bullet through your eye, to play your part and say your lines.

'The Handmaid's Tale' is a very special story.

Make a fairy tale and go and live in it.

Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.

Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear a glorious tale of his insanity! I have not yet clarified, psychoanalytically, this boredom during the recital of other people's dreams. Perhaps I have retained the stiffness of a rationalist. I do not follow the tale of justified incoherence docilely. I always suspect that part of the stupidities being recounted are invented.

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.

This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.

I realized that there is no fairy tale.

The ache of empty arms was an old tale to you.

The tale is often wiser than the teller.

It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.

After my film 'The Tale of Two Sisters,' I received a lot of offers from Hollywood to direct, but because 'A Tale of Two Sisters' was a horror film, I received a lot of horror films. But I wasn't interested in working in the same genre, and the scripts I received for films in different genres were for projects that were near completion.

As one tale ends, so another begins.

A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure.

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!

To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth have to be elementary, simple. Good and evil, the antagonists of all great drama in some guise, must be believably personalized. The moral ideals common to all humanity must be upheld. The victories must not be too easy. Strife to test valor is still and will always be the basic ingredient of the animated tale, as of all screen entertainments.

He used to talk to me about Russia all the time and had sworn up and down that I'd love it here. "To you, it'd be like a fairy tale," he'd told me. "Sorry, comrade. Borg and out-of-date music aren't part of any happy ending I've ever imagined." "Borscht, not borg. And I've seen your appetite. If you were hungry enough, you'd eat it." "So starvation's necessary for this fairy tale to work out?

Each of us has a creation tale - how we came into this world. And I'll add this: each of us has an uncreation tale - how our lives came apart. That which undoes us. Sooner or later, it will claim you. Mark you. More than your creation.

A drink is shorter than a tale

In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood.

A tale in everything.

My life has been nothing short of a fairy tale.

Trust the tale, not the teller.

What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for.

A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!

History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.

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

A false tale often betrays itself.

A key and a strangler - this is all a simple tale requires.

The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't.

...a tale of too many cooks in the defence.

There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.

To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.

Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.

Myth is a tale once believed as truth; believed, it is not myth, but religion. A tale once religiously believed that has come to be called a myth is something of religion corrupted with disbelief. What are beliefs for some societies but myths for others cannot fill spiritual vacancies in the life of those others.

Victor Vigny: It is like the old fairy tale. The boy saves the princess; they fall in love. He invents a flying machine - along with his dashing teacher, of course. They get married and name thier firstborn after the aforementioned dashing teacher. Conor: I don't recall that fairy tale from the nursery. Victor Vigny: Trust me, It's a classic.

"Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once." "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad a tale in three words as any you might have told me. But a life without a tale is like a sea without salt. How do you live?" "I live." "Another?" Foamfollower returned. "In two words, a story sadder than the first. Say no more - with one word you will make me weep."

This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws.

In a way, I do believe in a fairy-tale romance.

Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.

It is the tale, not he who tells it.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Like everbody, I'm addicted to 'The Handmaid's Tale.'

Every Hermes scarf has a tale.

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.

It's a tale of redemption. It's a tale of a girl who is going on a journey, who makes mistakes as most young people do... the credit card companies love sending you credit cards so you exceed your limit and they can charge you interest. And this is a girl who overcomes her problems and figures a way out of her financial crisis, and hopefully the world will do the same thing.

M. J. Putney's writing has always been magical; now that she has turned her hand to the telling of a fantasy tale, it sparkles on the page. Stolen Magic has to be one of the most delightful reads of the year, a witty, finely crafted tale that enchants from beginning to end. As always, Putney's intelligent wordsmithery, scholarship, eye for detail, and ability to bring to life irresistible characters add up to enjoyment on every page. Fast-moving and fun!

History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.

I'm living a fairy tale.

'The Handmaid's Tale' will blow people away.