An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth.
A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.
There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.
People need stories; they want stories. They always will.
I appreciate hearing different stories. It inspires me.
Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
I got into the genesis of Star Wars, and the tale seemed to me endlessly fascinating.
I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.
Storytelling is essentially what we do.
I'm sure you can even find ménage à trois in medieval tales.
Once upon a time . . .” “In the beginning was . . .” That’s the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history, chronicle, myth, legend, folktale, or old wives’ tale blues riff begins with “Woke up this mornin’. . . .
The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that.
Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?
George Clinton is the best storyteller in the world.
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.
I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to have no star map for our future.
I love fairy tales.
Everyone knows who Bonzo is - you can just go pick up those books and read these fisherman's-tale stories. But at home he was a regular dad who would ground me and embarrass me in front of my friends. He was in Led Zeppelin and he would still embarrass me!
Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down.
History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.
That's all that really matters in the end. Stories.
In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood.
There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers and enemies, strangers and friends. But all are fragile things made of just twenty-six letters arranged and re-arranged to form tales and imaginings which will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul.
A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!
As one tale ends, so another begins.
