Top 1151 Tale Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

I want to believe in the fairy tale.

I'm living a fairy tale.

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

Evolution is a fairy tale for adults

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.

I realized that there is no fairy tale.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

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

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

Every tale is not to be believed.

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

To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.

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

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

I love fairy tale retellings and mash-ups.

Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.

There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.

This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws.

Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.

My life is a fairy tale. You could not make it up.

Trust the tale, not the teller.

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.

It is the tale, not he who tells it.

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.

A false tale often betrays itself.

What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

Why can't love be a fairy tale?

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

As one tale ends, so another begins.

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

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

History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.

Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement.

Make a fairy tale and go and live in it.

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

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

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

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.

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

Every constellation’s like its own 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.

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!

A tale in everything.

The tale is often wiser than the teller.

If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.

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

All of mathematics is a tale about groups.

Things aren't always the fairy tale that you thought they were.

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

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

Every Hermes scarf has a tale.

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

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!

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

A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins.

A drink is shorter than a tale

My life has been nothing short of a fairy tale.