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You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul -- Erin Morgenstern
To tell a tale so great as to tear the soul inside outSara Niles, Torn From the Inside Out -- Sara Niles
My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me about the people at the paper and the articles she wrote. She had the best memory of anyone I know, and she could really tell a tale. -- Candace Camp
Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does. -- Isak Dinesen
One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism. -- John Avlon
I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns. -- Algernon Blackwood
Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales. -- Joseph Jacobs
Harlem is not a playground for rich bankers and consultants. It's got students of all colors. It's got old people who keep history and tell tall tales. -- Marcus Samuelsson
Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he's somebody whom I've been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read 'The Tell-Tale Heart' at age four. -- Rose McGowan
Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them. -- Patrick Ness
There's not a wind but whispers of thy name; And not a flow'r that grows beneath the moon, But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale Of thee, my love. -- Bryan Procter
Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit. -- Rabih Alameddine
Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movie 'A Bronx Tale' tells us, it is better to be feared if you can't be loved. -- Philip Zimbardo
To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time. -- Maurice Sendak
The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife. -- Danny DeVito
Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale. -- Robert Falcon Scott
The special skills necessary for being a storyteller are really very simple. I actually talked about them in a book of mine called 'Tell Me a Tale.' Those basic skills are to listen, to observe, to remember, and to share. -- Joseph Bruchac
I am 39. I am single. I am a black woman. I have too many advanced degrees. Many a news story tells me finding true love is likely a hopeless proposition. Now is the time when I need to believe in fairy tales. -- Roxane Gay
You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting. -- Margaret Atwood
My family were great story-tellers. My mum was one of 12 and they were all fighting to tell stories. You have to tell a good tale or no one is going to listen. You have to make it entertaining and interesting. That's how I learned to tell stories. -- Denise Mina
At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We've made this deal that we tell you a tale and a pack of lies, but there will be a truth in it. You may enjoy it, or it will disturb you. -- Pete Postlethwaite
Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism. -- Arnaud Desplechin
Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale. -- Horace
Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale. -- Frank McCourt
I hate To tell again a tale once fully told. -- Homer
The wordy tale, once told, were hard to tell again. -- Homer
Let these eyes tell the tale until it is too late. -- Junaid e Mustafa
The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell. -- Adrienne Rich
I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell. -- Kate Morton
Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves. -- Marjane Satrapi
The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale. -- Phyllis Rose
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me. -- Walter Scott
What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale. -- Rebecca Wells
I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you. -- Jodi Picoult
Rumour was the messenger Of defamation, and so swift, that none Could be the first to tell an evil tale. -- Robert Pollok
If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale. -- Tom Petty
If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell. -- Gordon Lightfoot
Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these truths. -- Harold Bloom
A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me. -- Ed Greenwood
The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates itself. -- Henry David Thoreau
The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale. -- Alexander Smith
It won't happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill's lunch. Breakups seldom do. It will unfold slowly, one little tell-tale symptom after another like some awful, hellish flower. -- Sylvia Plath

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