Quotes About Tall Tales

#1. The Lord who has given us power to teach and to hear, let Him also give us the power to serve and to do.

Martin Luther

#2. This was not what we wanted to hear that morning. Adventures inspire, tall tales excite, and fantasies stir the imagination, but sad stories seldom ever buoy the spirit. We all paused to take in the sad news.

J.W. Lord

#3. As I was writing, I realised I wasn't sufficiently extrovert to gather enough interesting souls with tall tales around me. I was no Louis Theroux. But neither was I interested in exploring my inner life in public, in the manner of a Jonathan Raban.

Clive Sinclair

#4. She died
this was the way she died;
And when her breath was done,
Took up her simple wardrobe
And started for the sun.
Her little figure at the gate
The angels must have spied,
Since I could never find her
Upon the mortal side.

Emily Dickinson

#5. A long time ago in a kingdom by the sea there lived a princess as tall and bright as a sunflower.

Jeanne Desy

#6. The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.

Nikola Tesla

#7. Mary bit her lip. "She is merely saying hello."
Oh, I am, Tottie agreed. I've been wanting to say hello to Mr. Jack for an age, personal-like. Her hand glided over his chest and headed down. Such a fine cocky fella, ye are. Shall we see if it's all just tall tales, then, me lad?

Kristen Callihan

#8. When you are calm, quiet and sensitive then you can expand. But when you are irritated, phobic, fearful, insensitive, and neurotic, you can't achieve anything.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#9. Things like this don't happen back in Libertyville, Illinois.
You don't get lost in the woods behind your house.
You don't get trapped inside a fortress-like wall ten feet tall.

Travis Thrasher

#10. Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

Jill Lepore

#11. If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and vitality and youthfulness and eternal vigor. It's only in our lifetime that running has become associated with fear and pain.

Christopher McDougall

#12. Library events scare me, as they provide refuge for local historians, fabulists, tellers of tall tales, historical reenactors, and even dream weavers. Not to mention the single most feared creature on the planet: the self-published poet

Joe Queenan

#13. The business of lying is transacted in the abode of the gullible.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#14. My Cuddle Time Bible Story Book
Sleeping with Jesus
Baby Bibles: Tall Tales for Tiny tots
Everybody Poops (Except God)

Dave Eggers

#15. There are all these people bragging about how they're survivors, as though that's something very special. But the only kind of person who can't say that is a corpse.

Kurt Vonnegut

#16. the reason for God's keeping some for himself and rejecting others is to be sought nowhere but in God himself. When

John Calvin

#17. Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.

Michael Ondaatje

#18. What do you do?" I ask.

"I live."

"I live" is not an answer, until I think about it. Maybe it's the perfect answer.

Jewel E. Ann

#19. People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

Stephen King

#20. Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.

Charles Kingsley

#21. I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

Albert Finney

#22. The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for.

C.S. Lewis

#23. 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

#24. It's fun telling you tall Texas tales. You always look like a little girl who's hearing Cinderella for the first time.

Edna Ferber

#25. I've always been into having stories told to me. I was a voracious reader, my father was also a teller of tales; and the kind of Baron Munchausen proxy of a tall tale was much more interesting than a true tale.

Damon Lindelof

#26. I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of stories where his trademark anarchy is combined with a tautness of writing that shines an affectionate yet uncompromising spotlight on some of the absurdities of human behaviour.

Giles Andreae

#27. Human beings have always been creative. The guys who were making the pyramids.. and archaeological research has showed us this.. had little figurines made by the workers, to express their devotion to their god.

Bill Viola