Tale Quotes

"For aught that I could ever read,Could ever hear by tale or history,The course of true love never did run smooth."
-William Shakespeare

"Life is a tale told by an idiot - full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
-William Shakespeare

"Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man."
-William Shakespeare

"An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told."
-William Shakespeare

"Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing.'"
-William Shakespeare

"The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind."
-Chinese Proverb

"I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale."
-Marie Curie

"I couldn't be more excited for her. It's really a fairy-tale story."
-Gunnar Brolinson

"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."
-Hans Christian Andersen

"That was the tale of the game."
-Rene Lafreniere

"Why can't love be a fairy tale?"
-Amy Davis

"I'm just enjoying it right now. I don't even know what to say. It's like a fairy tale. I never thought this would happen."
-Jason Pyle

"That a former U.S. congressman couldn't overcome a late start should be a cautionary tale to any other potential latecomers."
-John Simpkins

"The entire story of 'Elizabethtown' arrived quickly, ... a tale of love and loss and the discovery of family roots in the aftermath of a very black turn of events in the life of a young shoe designer, Orlando Bloom. It was a story that would start with an ending and end with a beginning and, I hoped, give a sense of what it was to be truly alive."
-Cameron Crowe

"That's kind of been the tale of our season. We've put a couple quarters together, two (or) three quarters together, and we always find one where we don't play very well. We came out heavy footed and didn't get much done in that first half. We have to find a way to put four quarters together."
-Jon Monti

"It was a tale of two halves for us. We could not do much that first half, especially the first quarter. We were really out of synch offensively and they capitalized on some chances we gave them with turnovers."
-Chris Lander

"My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come."
-Ravi Shankar

"Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart."
-Salman Rushdie

"(Today) will tell the tale. You're starting to get into serious money."
-Hugo Papstein

"The Tale of Peter Rabbit."
-Beatrix Potter

"I respect Garth a ton, and I know that he does a great job with those guys. Every time that we play them, I am very concerned. Sometimes the score doesn't tell the tale. Tonight we got a little bit of a jump on them early and we built a lead, but the first two games were closer."
-Doug Scheidt

"'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poorest man's heart thru half the year."
-Sir Walter Scott

"So the whole thrust of any kind of reportage of the Royal Family, certainly in the tabloids, it may have been intrusive in terms of the way you define it, but it was certainly very laudatory and it really maintained and expanded the fairy tale."
-Andrew Morton

"This is really a tale of two job markets."
-Marc Levesque

"It was a tale of two halves. The first half, we came out flat and couldn't hit anything. They (North Stars) were scoring, it almost seemed, at will. At halftime, I challenged the girls to come out to play with a lot of pride and heart and not to give up. There was a lot of basketball to play. I'm very proud of them."
-Gina Nolan

"It has been an oversimplified tale."
-Kelly Dixon

"For me, As You Like It is like an ancient tale, it's like the myth of human existence, really. The myth of courtship, of love and of marriage."
-Dean Gilmour

"I think a lot of people are in a wait-and-see mode. The next couple of weeks are really going to tell the tale."
-Wade Jessen