#tale

Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#cast #come #even #face #first

God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#draw #gave #god #him #i

This is not the way these tales end," Calliope said firmly. "This is not the way that things end when they get to be tales," Amatus said, "but since ours is not yet told, we cannot count on it. There were a hundred dead princes on the thorns outside Sleeping Beauty's castle, and I'm sure many of them were splendid fellows. ↗

— John Barnes

#calliope #dead-princes #sleeping-beauty #stories #tales

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#although #antiquated #begun #course #had

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#bandit #between #conventional #deadly #georgia

No matter who we are, where we live, what we look like, the circumstances of our birth or the situations we face; each of us has gifts within us. Strength, beauty, courage, compassion, hope, joy, talent, imagination, reverence, wisdom, love and faith are among them. They are not like material presents we unwrap and hold in our hands. We can’t see these gifts with our eyes. But they are real and powerful. When we open ourselves to them, they can enrich every aspect of our lives. They can help us transform challenges into opportunities and tragedies into triumphs. They can help us make a difference in the world. ↗

— Charlene Costanzo

#compassion #courage #faith #healing #hope

I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them. ↗

— Rita Dove

#children #gets #i #i think #insight

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#higher #instantly #itself #knows #mediocrity

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#fairy #fairy tales #i #left #picture

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. ↗