A Tale For The Time Being Quotes

#1. Who in hell bought a mug with blue butterflies on it!" I shouted, slamming it on the counter beside the stove. "We are serious people doing serious things! I don't have time for butterflies!

Kim Harrison

#2. Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.

Quincy Jones

#3. In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

Tavis Smiley

#4. Kids eh? Little treasures, I love 'em ... couldn't eat a whole one though ...

Murdoc Niccals

#5. A Chihuahua. They're good. If you lose one, just empty out your purse.

Jean Carroll

#6. She'd been betwitched. She'd pricked her finger and had fallen into a deep, comalike sleep.

Ruth Ozeki

#7. Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.

Ruth Ozeki

#8. The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.

Timothy West

#9. The right kind of listener makes a difference. When someone takes the time to hear us out, something singular happens. By being interested and showing it, the listener becomes part of the tale.

Wendy Lustbader

#10. If you wish to write, write.

Epictetus

#11. I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.

Patrick Rothfuss

#12. How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail.

Jennifer Salaiz

#13. It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it.

Charlotte Whitton

#14. Find your security, success, and peace in God. Then, and only then, can it never be taken from you.

Mike Bickle

#15. When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just nothing but notebooks. And if I haven't gotten an idea but I have time to work, I'll pull one out and I bet there will be five or six sentences that will kick me off.

John Darnielle

#16. A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.

Abraham Lincoln

#17. I've played American characters so many times now, it's so natural to me. But when I play American, I stay in the American accent from the minute I get the job till the minute I wrap.

Gregg Sulkin

#18. This act is an ancient tale new told;
And, in the last repeating, troublesome,
Being urged at a time unseasonable.

William Shakespeare

#19. WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.

Dave Eggers