Quotes about tale
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By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Variant: There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.”
Source: For One More Day
“You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.”
Source: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“at the center of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.”
Source: The You I Never Knew
“This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws.”
Source: Drowning Instinct
Source: How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls
“Remember all fairy tales end at some point.”
Source: Lost in Time
Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
“And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.”
Source: The Darkest Night
Letters
Source: Letters of David Hume 2 vols
Book I, Ch. 20
Attributed
“What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale.”
Variant: I have been to the edge and lived to tell the tale..
Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
Source: The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography
Source: The Darkest Night
“Fairy tales only happen in movies."
-George Melies
from The Invention of Hugo Cabret”
Source: The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Source: From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
Source: Son of the Shadows
Variant: This was not a faerie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.
Source: Violet & Claire
“It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read,
I need protection from the things in my head…”
“You want the fairy tale."
"I want a chance at it.”
Source: I'm In No Mood For Love
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 57.
Context: Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. … Knowing nothing and fearing everything, they rant and rave and riot like so many maniacs. The subject does not matter. Any idea which gives them an excuse of getting excited will serve. They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally avowable emotion. It may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman or even a doctor whose views displease the Medial Trust.
“The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.”
Source: Second Helpings
“Many forgotten things live still in children's tales.”
Source: The Riddle
Garcin, Act 1, sc. 5
Variant: So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people.
Source: No Exit (1944)
“A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.”
Un conte sans amour est comme du boudin sans moutarde; c’est chose insipide.
La Révolte des Anges http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_R%C3%A9volte_des_anges_-_8 [The Revolt of the Angels], (1914), ch. VIII
Review http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2007/03/09/300/index.html of 300 (2007)
trans. Richard Bowring (Penguin Books, 1996)
The Diary of Lady Murasaki
“This suffering will yield us yet
A pleasant tale to tell.”
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book I, p. 12
The Ethical Foundations of Dr. King's Political Action http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/01.17/99-mlkspeech.html Speech on Martin Luther King day (2002)
Miss Harkins, Chapter 13, p. 139
2000s, A Bend in the Road (2001)
Japan, the Beautiful and Myself (1969)
“Who says that English folk have no fairy-tales of their own?”
English Fairy Tales (1890), Preface to English Fairy Tales
Source: The Postman (1985), Section 3, “Cincinnatus”, Chapter 18 (p. 298)
Source: The Warden (1855), Ch. 1, first lines
Let There Be Light, Natural History Magazine, October 2003, 2010-12-07 http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/read/2003/10/01/let-there-be-light,
2000s
Never Before Aired: Watch PART II of the debate between Finkelstein and Dershowitz http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=109 (archive located here http://web.archive.org/web/20120814094352/http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/never-before-aired-watch-part-ii-of-the-debate-between-finkelstein-and-dershowitz/ is a continuation of part 1 http://web.archive.org/web/20120910213955/http://www.democracynow.org/2003/9/24/scholar_norman_finkelstein_calls_professor_alan) published 2003-9-24
"The Bear in the Bush", Liberty Bell (September 1990)
1990s
Zheng Yuanjie (2008) in: "China's Hans Christian Andersen" on CRIENGLISH.com, June 19, 2008 ( online http://english.cri.cn/4406/2008/06/19/1141@370720.htm).
Uno amore...a lieto fin pervenuto, in una novelletta assai piccola intendo di raccontarvi.
Fifth Day, Fourth Story
The Decameron (c. 1350)
translation from Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018
version in Dutch / citaat van Jacoba van Heemskerck, in het Nederlands vertaald: Ik begrijp niet hoe veel schilders zo kortzichtig kunnen zijn kunst uit vroegere perioden als volkomen waardeloos aan te merken. Elke kunst is een uiting van een tijdperk en alleen daarom al interessant. Een Rembrandt is andere wegen gegaan maar heeft zeker ook de hoogste doelen nagestreefd. Dat men beweren kan: een schilder hoeft bij het schilderen van een Bild geen voorstelling te hebben, is onzin. Zeker heeft een kunstenaar, als hij werkelijk artiest is, altijd een innerlijke drang een Bild te scheppen en ziet dus een Bild voor zich dat hij misschien niet altijd verklaren kan omdat diepere gevoelens heel moeilijk in woorden te vatten zijn, maar een voorstelling heeft hij - anders maakt hij schilderijen en is het puur hersenwerk. En intellectuele kunst staat mij zeer tegen. Abstracte kunst is niet op zich zelf staand te maken. Men voelt verscheidene vormen in hun innerlijke samenhang. Bijvoorbeeld: bij het lezen van een sprookje kan ik de ingeving krijgen een bos in geheel abstracte vormen met boommotieven te schilderen. Elke abstracte vorm heeft voor mij een innerlijke betekenis.
Quote of Jacoba van Heemskerck in her letter of 1 May 1920, to Gustave Bock in Giessen, Germany; as cited in Jacoba van Heemskerck van Beest, 1876 – 1923: schilderes uit roeping, A. H. Huussen jr. (ed. Marleen Blokhuis), (ISBN: 90-400-9064-5) Waanders, Zwolle, 2005, p. 168
1920's
Source: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 5 (“Router”), p. 201
“With living colours give my verse to glow:
The sad memorial of a tale of woe!”
Introduction, lines 35-36.
The Shipwreck (1762)
Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book III. Jason and Medea, Lines 1–3
“Tell me the tales that to me were so dear,
Long, long ago, long, long ago.”
Long, long ago, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Overman Culture (1971)
“Lest men suspect your tale untrue,
Keep probability in view.”
Fable, The Painter who pleased Nobody and Everybody
Fables (1727)
Section 3 “Admiralty”, Chapter X (p. 207)
The Star Fox (1965)
Part 1, Ch. 6
Anne of Windy Poplars (1936)
Had Enough Religious Bullshit http://www.edkrebs.com/herb/, Ed Krebs' site.
“How easy it is to tell tales!”
Jacques le Fataliste (1796)
The Song of Seventy.
A Thousand Lines (1846)
If You Could Read My Mind, Track 8, Reprise
Sit Down Young Stranger (1970)
Quote in a writing by Chagall, in Chagall's early work in the Soviet Union, Alexander Kamensky; as quoted in Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 – 1922, editor Christoph Vitali, exhibition catalogue, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1991, p. 41
1920's
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter Eight,