Tale Quotes
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If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.
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Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.
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Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
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I'm so lucky that he agreed. A fascinating tale.
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Of an old tale which every schoolboy knows.
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My tale doesn't end there, for the end has yet to be written.
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Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know.
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There is a tale...It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini would grow.
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As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself.
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A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!
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The tale is, in large part, our capital. I was nourished on tales...when an old person dies, a whole library disappears.
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Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew — Twenty bridges or twenty two — Wanted to know what the River knew, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told.
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People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.
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Europe is often held up as a cautionary tale, a demonstration that if you try to make the economy less brutal, to take better care of your fellow citizens when they're down on their luck, you end up killing economic progress. But what European experience actually demonstrates is the opposite: social justice and progress can go hand in hand.
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A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who has to live in it.
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My beloved son Thomas did caution, when first I set out to flow this tale upon the world, that although they may not be felt like a fist or a whip, words have a power that can nevertheless cower even the largest man to gibbering tears.
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The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.
